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Crew overboard for 35 minutes in darkness and heavy seas Michael Weeks, a crew member aboard Appledore's Tyne class all-weather lifeboat spent some 35 minutes in the water, in darkness and heavy seas, on 3 May 1994 when he was thrown...
State-Maintained Life-Boats In Norway
IN nine of the thirteen foreign countries ! which have National Life-boat Services, the Service is voluntarily maintained ! like our own, though, in some cases, with I grants-in-aid from the State. In the remaining five it is...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Dynamo
FEBRUARY 27TH a n d 2 8TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK.
At 9.30 in the morning the Gorleston coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station that the S.S. Dynamo, of Hull, was aground on North Bank. She was...
On the Force of the Wind
IN the Register of Wrecks, which, always forms a portion of each number of this Journal, it will be observed that in addition.
to the direction of the wind, a column of figures is added to denote its force, by a scale, the...
Category: Articles
The Bridlington Cobles Serene, Eva Ann and Challenge (2)
Knockdown THE COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of Flamborough lifeboat station on Monday January 23, 1984, that three Bridlington cobles, Serene, Eva Ann and Challenge, had been caught in worsening weather north of...
The S.S. Dagenham and the S.S. Sherbrooke
NOVEMBER 16-20TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At about 2.45 P.M. the coxswain received a message from the Warden Point coastguard that a ship was sinking close to the Mouse Light-vessel. A strong easterly gale was blowing, with a rough sea...
Jeanne
At about midnight on 15-16th February the steam trawler Jeanne, of Ostend, struck the Keldar Steel, an outlying reef near Kettleness, while bound home, with a cargo of fish, from the fishing grounds.
She carried a crew of...
The S.S. President
At 1.5 A.M. on the 6th December a message was received, stating that a steamer was ashore at Druridge Bay. The crew of the Life-boat Mary Andrew were at once called, the Life-boat was launched at 1.30 A.M. and proceeded to the vessel, which...
Princess Alexandra Visited Guernsey Channel Islands and Met the St. Peter Port Life-Boat Crew on 10th October 1968 Here She Is Shown Talking to Members of the Crew
Princess Alexandra visited Guernsey, Channel Islands, and met the St. Peter Port life-boat crew on 10th October, 1968. Here she is shown talking to members of the crew.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Life-Boats
SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. — The Life- Boat stationed by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION many years since at Sheringham has been replaced by a new one, of the " Liverpool" type, 41 feet long and 11 feet wide, fitted to row 16...
Category: Inaugurations