FIVE life-boats at stations as far apart as Sunderland and Shoreham Harbour were named during the last quarter. On the 4th of July at Sunderland a life-boat provided out of a legacy left by Miss Emily Myers was named. Mr. R. Cyril Thompson,...
Category: Inaugurations
East Division Rescue in the surf SILVER MEDAL A CALL CAME THROUGH to Tyne Tees Coastguard at 0101 on the morning of Saturday April 15, 1986, that a disabled fishing vessel, the 60ft La Morlaye, with three men on board, was in danger of going...
Category: Services
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. — At 10.35 on the morning of the 21 st of Octo- ber, 1954, the Barry Island coastguard reported that a message had been received from the R.A.F. No. 19 Group at Plymouth that the pilot of a Javelin aircraft,...
At Yeovilton Air Day last August, John King (r) chairman of Yeovil branch, put on display the working scale model which he had made himself of Poole's 44ft Waveney lifeboat Augustine Courtauld. The model, used for fund raising, had that... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
GOBLESTON. — On the 1st January, 1895, the steamers Sent, of London, and Kirkstall, of Shields, which had been detained in the roadstead by stress of weather, ran short of provisions and each sent a boat ashore to obtain supplies. A moderate...
Category: Services
In 2013, we’ll start replacing Mersey class lifeboats with the next generation of all-weather lifeboat – the Shannon class. At £1.5M a piece, why are we doing it?
The Mersey class lifeboat...
Category: Articles
THE MOST HON. THE MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY, K.G., IN THE CHAIR.
Moved by The Chairman.
Seconded by the Hon. Mr. JUSTICE DARLING.
Supported by the Eight Hon. The EARL OF...
Category: Meetings
(Above) Leeds appeal committee organised a charity greyhound meeting at Elland Road Stadium on May 6. Various firms in the city sponsored the eight races, to £100 each, and a very successful and enjoyable occasion yielded about... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
At 12.15 A.M. on the 2nd October information was re- ceived that a vessel was continually burning flares off Trevose Head, and appeared to be driving ashore. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat Edmund Harvey were at once summoned, and the boat,...
(above) Atlantic 21: length overall 22ft 6in; beam 7ft 6in; draught, including engines, 2ft 6in; displacement I ton; maximum speed, 29 knots; range at full speed, 70 nautical miles.
The Atlantic 21, introduced in 1972, has... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs