Portquin Bav, Cornwall, December 15, 1979: Padstow lifeboat, the 48ft 6in Oakley James and Catherine Macfarlane stands by the Greek freighter Skopelos Sky in an onshore storm gusting to hurricane force. photograph by courtesy of John... - View image in PDF
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A model of 'The Original'.
Built by Henry Greathead of South 'Shields in 1789. 'The Original' lifeboat was based on a model by William Wouldhave to which modifications were made by Nicholas fairies.... - View image in PDF
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Again, on the 12th July, two lads, in a small sailing-boat, were driven out to sea during a strong wind from the S.S.W., and being unable to return, they dropped anchor, and tied a cravat on an oar, as a signal to those, on shore, which...
HARWICH.—-At noon on the 7th Feb., in answer to a telegram, the Springwtll Life-boat was manned and put off to the rescue of the crew of a vessel ashore on the Shipwash Sand. A strong S.S.E. wind was blowing at the time, and the sea was...
JUNE 27TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT. At 12.27 P.M. a message was received from the Sandgate coastguard that a Hurricane fighter aeroplane had come down in the sea about six miles S.S.W. of Dungeness. A light westerly breeze was blowing and the sea...
Arun is a prototype 52-foot fully self-righting life-boat, built to satisfy the need for a faster design. The second prototype will have reduced free-board amidships.. - View image in PDF
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On the night of 14th October last year the Buckle, Banffshire, life-boat Laura Moncur and a Shackleton Mark 3 of No.
120 Squadron, R.A.F. Kinloss, took part in a search and rescue exercise. The life-boat carried a second... - View image in PDF
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. . . before performing the ceremony, Commander Ralph Swann was presented by former Weymouth coxswain Mr F. J. Palmer with a framed photograph o/Tony Vandervell in Portland Race. With them are Lieut.- Commander B. F. Morris, honorary... - View image in PDF
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Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 7.50 on the evening of the 3rd of January, 1955, a woman at Norton telephoned that a vessel was burning flares near Black Rock. The vessel was the M.F.V. No. 51, of the Water Trans- port Section of the Royal Army...
ON the night on 9th January signals of a vessel in distress were seen off Tor Ness at the south-west end of the island of Hoy in the Orkneys. She was found later to be the trawler Dorbie of Hull.
It was then ten minutes...
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