Whltby, Yorkshire.—At 11.15 on the night of the 16th of July, 1957, the coastguard telephoned to say the motor vessel Spontaneity, on passage to Yarmouth, had reported that one of her crew was sick. She was ex- pected to arrive off Whitby in...
MAN TAKEN ON BOARD AND DINGHY TOWED IN Hastings, Sussex. At 3.58 on the afternoon of the 22nd March, 1963, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic, in the absence of the honorary secretary, that the Bexhill police had reported a dinghy...
Dunbar, Haddingtonshire. At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 9th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the police had reported two small boats in difficulties on the rocks off Dunbar old bathing pool. A strong...
Blyth, Northumberland. At 10.30 on the morning of the 14th October, 1961, the Blyth police informed the honorary secretary that a body had been seen floating in Colleywell Bay, and that as it was nearly low water no small boat could put out...
Lifeboat stations can be in very scenic surroundings, such as here at Conwy in Gwynedd, where the boathouse for the station's D class is almost in the shadow of the famous , castle, and backs on to part of the Town... - View image in PDF
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SWANSEA.—On the afternoon of the 27th August the coxswain of the Lifeboat received a telegram stating that three vessels were ashore between Swansea and Neath. The wind was then blowing a gale from the W.S.W., and the sea was rough. The...
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LAUNCH Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At 2.40 on the afternoon of the 28th May, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the yacht Scylla of Beaumaris was being towed by the R.A.S.C....
RAMSGATE.—At midnight on the 30th of March signals were fired by the Gull and Goodwin Lightships, and a flare was seen on the North Sand Head. The Bradford Life-boat stationed at Ramsgate put out in tow of the harbour steam-tug...
ON the evening of Sunday the 23rd of December, last, a choir of over twenty voices, and a harmonium, gathered on the deck and in the cockpit of the Eastbourne life-boat Beryl Tollemache in her boat-house, and over the life- boat's radio...
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LIFE-BOAT TRANSPORTING-CARRIAGE AS ADOPTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION THE carriage consists of a fore and main body. The latter is formed of a keelway A, A, and of side or bilgeways B, B, in ! rear of the main axle, the...
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