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MARINE VHP RADIO SCANNER 10 channel communications receiver made exclusively for the maritime VHP frequencies. Manual channel selection or autoscan Volume & Squelch controls, built in speaker, earphone, nicact battery Quartz crystal...
Category: Advertisement
Harry Martin
At 9.15 P.M. on the llth May it was reported that a fishing vessel, the Harry Martin, of Ramsgate, in trying to make the Har- bour had failed to do so and was driving ashore. The weather at the time was very bad, with a strong N.E. gale...
Sennen Cove Naming Ceremony. The Legacy of Mr. Charles Carr Ashley
THE new Sennen Cove life-boat is a gift to the Life-boat Service from one of its most generous benefactors, the late Mr. Charles Carr Ashley, who died at Mentone in 1906. He bequeathed his estate to the Institution, subject to a number of...
Category: Inaugurations
La Francoise
French trawlermen saved IN THE WAKE OF the hurricane which swept across South East England in the early hours of October 16, 1987, many of the boats berthed at Newhaven Harbour—ripped from their moorings in the 90-knot winds—had been blown...
Gang Warily Ashore After the Weather Had Moderated Coxswain Race Took the Tyne Class Lifeboat
Gang Warily ashore after the weather had moderated. Coxswain Race took the Tyne class lifeboat Owen and Ann Aisher (inset) into the surf among the rocks to snatch the skipper from his wheel house.
(Main Photo - Ron Sotheran... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Reading the sea
From surfers to fishermen to lifeboat coxswains, people who rely on the sea need to be expert at understanding what it’s doing. But how well do you know your tides, waves and currents?
The sea is changing all the time....
Category: Articles
For a Change the Endurance of Second Coxswain Peter Leith of Lerwick Is Being Tested
For a change, the endurance of Second Coxswain Peter Leith of Lerwick is being tested other than by hours spent at sea in bad conditions.
Here he is seen on the station's open day during an eight-hour non-stop sponsored... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pancake Race
Friends and work colleagues from several Penarth supermarkets and highstreet stores got together on Shrove Tuesday to take part in a sponsored pancake race in aid of the RNLI.
The picture shows the Lord Mayor of Cardiff... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Grace Darling
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 1.25 on the afternoon of the 19th of October, 1952, the Formby coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was burning a flare about one and a half miles north of Rossall Point, and at 1.40 the life-boat Ann Letitia...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 1st September, 1881.
Sir EDWARD PERROTT, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Bead and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee