Among sandbanks AT 1621 on Sunday March 31, 1985, a coastguard auxiliary from Brancaster reported to his Great Yarmouth coordination centre that he had a board sailor in sight who was in trouble. He was lying on his board, unable to reach...
At daylight on the 27th De- cember the brigantine Lutha, of Leith, was observed off "Whitby with loss of masts and sails, and otherwise disabled, and with signals of distress in her rigging.
The Whitby No. 1 life-boat...
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Backbone of the FishingTrade.
This was one that didn't get away. One of a thousand million.
A thousand million of the reasons why every day and night men put out to sea in all weathers to earn their...
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The Reverend R. F. Donaldson conducts the service of dedication for Pwllheli's new D class lifeboat outside the lifeboat house on 29 April. - View image in PDF
(Photo courtesy Jeff Morris). - View image in PDF
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SEPTEMBER 17TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. Shortly after one in the afternoon information was received that a vessel was in difficulties, and later it was learned that she was showing a distress signal. The weather was fine and the sea smooth....
AUGUST 8TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. A convoy of ships had been attacked from the air and some of them had been sunk. The life-boat. put out with the honorary secretary of the station, a naval surgeon and a policeman on board, but a...
The Oxfordshire life-boat at Looe re- mained alongside the schooner St. Brannoch, of Bideford, which vessel had stranded near Maymean, near Looe Island. Ulti- mately the vessel was got off and taken into harbour, the life-boat assisting on...
Three honorary secretaries of life-boat stations, Mr. Walter Riggs, of Aldeburgh, Mr. G. Scantlebury, of Plymouth, and Mr. G. L. Thomson, of Stromness, Orknays, were made Members of the Order of the British Empire in the Birthday Honours in...
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Mr. Felix Rubie, M.I.N.A., who died on 25th February last, had passed the greater part of his life in the service of the Institution. Born in 1862, he was brought up at Cowes, and it was there that he learnt his sailing. He served his...
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