COXSWAIN'S SONS RESCUED Longhope, and Stromness, Orkneys, and Wick, and Thurso, Caithness- shire. At 5.30 p.m. on I7th December, 1963, the coastguard told the Longhope honorary secretary that red flares had been seen in the Pentland...
GIRL ON CLIFF Douglas, Isle of Man. At 8.40 p.m.
on 25th May, 1964, the Ramsey coastguard told the honorary secretary that the police had reported that a girl had climbed down a cliff below the entrance to Howstrake holiday...
'It's a great pleasure to be here', said Clive Dunn who visited RNLI Headquarters to draw the sixteenth national lottery. 'Anything we do is done with great gratitude and affection for the lifeboat people'. Clive, who was...
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(continued from page 166) breeding ground of many severe squalls and walls of white squalls were whistling across the firth, bringing'snow and stinging spray in their path.
Outside the firth, in the open sea, the south...
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THE DRAW for the 29th national lottery on April 30, 1985 was made by Captain Philip Roberts DSO who was captain of RFA Sir Galahad when she came under attack during the Falklands conflict in 1982. Before returning to sea in May this year,...
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Oh dear, oh deer On 21 May Bridlineton's D class lifeboat Bridlington's was launched after two deer from a nearby park took to the water when chased by dogs.
We reproduce the station honorary secretary's report...
RAMSGATE.—On the 26th January, at 7.45 A.M., during a moderate wind from the N., a barque was observed ashore on the North Sand Head, Goodwin Sands.
The harbour steam-tug Vulcan and Lifeboat Bradford were immediately...
RAMSGATE and DEAL. — Signals were made by the Goodwin and Gull lightships, during a fresh S.E. gale and a heavy sea, on the morning of the 31st of October.
At the same time a large flare was seen in the direction of the...
MARCH 25TH. - STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES, CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, AND BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. At 6.45 in the morning the coastguard reported to the Stornoway life-boat station that a steamer was ashore three-quarters of a mile south of Glas...
Electronic aids to navigation and sailing The chart tpaa In "Winsome", a Nicholson "43" finished by the Berthan Boat Co. Ltd., Lymington.
The navigational instruments, from left to right, are as follows:...
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