Vellum service LAST QUARTER'S issue of THE LIFEBOAT reported a service on May 25, 1986 by Ramsey lifeboat to three yachts in trouble at the end of Isle of Man's round the island race. The three yachts were towed one after the other...
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JUNE 7TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON. At one in the morning a request came for the life-boat crew to stand by, as the deep sea tug Empire Harry, of Hull, with two laden lighters in tow, had gone ashore. A fresh south-west wind was blowing, with a...
APRIL 24TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL. At 6.30 A.M. the coastguard reported a fishing boat in distress S.W. of Penzer Point, and the motor life-boat W. and S. was launched at 6.50 A.M.
An E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough...
The Staithes Pull- ing and Sailing Life-boat John Anthony was launched at 10.45 A.M. on the 5th October, as two of a number of fishing cobles which had put to sea to haul their crab pots had not returned and the sea had become rough, with a...
Ex-Coxswain Richard Roberts of Deal. - View image in PDF
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Trailer trainer: a caravan fitted out as a classroom to provide lifeboat crews with specialist training in communications, radar plotting and navigation was presented to the RNLI by Dr Ronald Hope, Director of the Marine Society on June 27... - View image in PDF
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JUNE 16TH. - HELVICK HEAD, CO.
WATERFORD. At three in the afternoon a man reported to the honorary secretary that a yacht from Dungarvan was at anchor about a mile and a half east of Helvick Head. A very strong...
s. The hardchine hull (right) running at a displacement near to that of the final boat. - View image in PDF
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BROADSTAIRS.—At 5 P.M., 12th March, the schooner Lion, of Goole, bound from Hull to the Isle of Wight, was observed driving before a heavy gale at north, with signals of distress flying. The signal guns of the station having failed to...