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NOVEMBER 18TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 3.46 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a small vessel had been blown up two miles S.S.E. from Clacton Pier. A light W.S.W. breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth. At 4 P.M....
Joe Duffield
September, 1984 Joe Duffield, honorary secretary of Largs station branch since 1975, after serving as deputy launching authority from 1972 to 1975..
Category: Obituaries
Tea-Up!'
Tea-up!' Andy Gibson uses an appropriate device to announce a tea break - no one can say they didn't hear this foghorn!. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Ship's Company of Rfa Gold Rover Commanded By Captain P T Taylor Collected £234 for Weymouth Lifeboat Station and the Money Was Presented to Coxswain Vic Pitman (1) By Chief O
The ship's company of RFA Gold Rover, commanded by Captain P. T. Taylor, collected £234 for Weymouth lifeboat station and the money was presented to Coxswain Vic Pitman (1.) by Chief Officer J. Carew at Portland last January. With... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Procure and Quest
During the afternoon of the 5th November the sea increased rapidly, and when the motor fishing yawls Procure and Quest, of Banff, inward bound, appeared in the bay, it was breaking very heavily across the harbour bar. A moderate S.S.E....
Four Flying 15 Dinghies and One National 18 Dinghy
Dinghies capsize A NEAR GALE, south-south-westerly force 7, was blowing on the afternoon of Saturday July 26, 1986, when Mrs Helen Nicholson noticed that a number of sailing boats were in difficulty off Hook Lighthouse and Waterford...
Air Marshall Sir Brian E. Baker, KBE, CB, DSO, MC, AFC
October 1979 Air Marshall Sir Brian E. Baker, KBE, CB, DSO, MC, AFC, who W3S awarded the silver badge in 1965 and honorary life governorship in 1971. Sir Brian became honorary secretary of St Andrews branch in 1952 and had been a strong...
Category: Obituaries
(Left) a welcome for everyone present from Major General Sir Robert Pigot, Bt, president of the Isle of Wight Lifeboat Board. Sir Max Aitken is seated on the extreme right.
(Left) A welcome for everyone present from Major General Sir Robert Pigot, Bt, president of the Isle of Wight Lifeboat Board. Sir Max Aitken is seated on the extreme right.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
December
Launches 34. Lives rescued 34.
DECEMBER 1 ST. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.
Shortly before mid-day the naval authorities telephoned that the ten-year-old daughter of the lightkeeper at South Lighthouse, Fair...
Category: Services
Mfv St.Patrick Taking Water Into Her Engine Room Was Towed Into Harbour on November 12 1975 By the 44' Waveney Lifeboat 40-001 on Temporary Duty at Great Yarmo
MFV St Patrick, taking water into her engine room, was towed into harbour on November 12, 1975, by the 44' Waveney lifeboat 40-001, on temporary duty at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston.
The lifeboat was under the command... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs