Capsized tug PILOT CUTTER COXSWAIN Michael Knott was in Lowestoft Bridge Control station when, at 0825 on Monday, August 16, 1976, a radio message was heard on Channel 16 VHP that the harbour tug Barkis had...
GREENORE, Co. LOUTH.—The schooner yacht Colleen, of Leith, lost one of her anchors and had the other disabled in a very heavy squall on the 27th August, and stranded about fifty yards W. of the Earl Kock, in Carlingford Lough. In response to...
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On the 10th August the paddle steamer Clacton Queen, of Rochester, left Clacton to visit Chatham, where Navy Week was being held. She carried a company of several hundred people. She did not return as expected, and...
WHETHER THEY DROP on to the doormat with a welcome letter, or arrive on the office desk with the next urgent problem, special issues of stamps make a cheerful start to any day.
The sea is a good and popular subject and in...
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Dutch dredger THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of Troon lifeboat station was told by Clyde Coastguard at 1345 on Friday September 12, 1980, that the Dutch dredger Holland I working off Irvine Harbour was breaking her moorings in severe weather...
Caister, Norfolk.—At 10.0 on the night of the 28th of December, 1951, the life-boat motor mechanic heard a vessel blowing V-signals on her siren, meaning "I require assistance", and five minutes later the Great Yarmouth coastguard...
Pictured is Peel's Lifeboat Princess for 1999, Zara Sweeney, and her attendants (left to right) Toni Biggane, Rachel Warburton and Natasha Le Moignan. The girls recieved second prize at the Peel carnival in August when their float was... - View image in PDF
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Mudeford's 17ft 6in twin-engined C class lifeboat leaps off a wave while on exercise. The photograph demonstrates why it is so important to befit to man this type of lifeboat. The age limit for crews of RNLI inflatables is 45. The... - View image in PDF
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THE Motor Life-boat at Wexford in Ireland has had the curious experience of rescuing a man from the land.
For many years the Wexford Life- boat Station was situated at the end of Rosslare Point, a spit several miles long...
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