Shoreham Harbour's D class inflatable lifeboat on exercise. Inflatable lifeboats have been stationed at Shoreham for the summer season, from April to October, since 1967. In that time they have launched 450 times anil rescued 233 people.... - View image in PDF
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I Richard Da vies, coxswain of Cromer lifeboat, first joined the crew in 1962 and then served as second coxswain from 1975 until his appointment as coxswain in 1976. Richard was also a crew member of the station's inshore lifeboat from... - View image in PDF
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MONTROSE, N. B.—On the 17th April some of the fishing fleet of Montrose were caught outside the bar of the river in a sudden storm from the S.E. Many boats which were in great peril hove-to outside, unwilling to take the bar. The...
HAYLE. — On the 24th March, the S.S. Eagle, of Neath, bound from that port to Hayle, with a cargo of coal, in making for the latter harbour, grounded on the bar, at about 9.30 A.M. she struck heavily, knocked away her rudder, and became...
The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's lifE belt are Sufficient extra buoyancy, 22 Ibs., to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person...
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Troon, Ayrshire. At 3.10 on the morn- ing of the 6th May, 1961, the meteoro- logical office at Prestwick airport in- formed the honorary secretary that the weather ship Weather Adviser, on passage to the Clyde, had reported a man overboard...
In October 1973, airmen and their families in the then West Germany pledged to raise funds for a B class lifeboat
Young Allen Stevens was a primary school student at RAF Wildenrath, where his...
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Aranmore and Greencastle, co. Donegal.
—The Anchor liner California, of Glas- gow—a vessel of nearly 9,000 tons register—stranded on the N.W. point of Tory Island, during a dense fog, on the evening of 28th June. She was...
A tug of war across the river, or for one of these gallant but presumably doomed young competitors, over the river.
This was just one of the ways that pupils from Kings of Wessex School, Cheddar, succeeded in raising... - View image in PDF
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Capsize TWO BOYS, aged 17 and 15, who had set out from Cove Sailing Club on a 15ft sailing surf board capsized off Baron's Point, lower Loch Long, at about 1240 on Sunday April 20 and were unable to right their boat because water was get...