About four o'clock on the morning of the 7th April, the steamer Carbon, of New- castle, was observed in an unmanageable state, and drifting about with the tide, in the direction of the Cockle Sand. The weather was hazy and the wind fresh...
The Lifeboat Atlantic 75 B-713 OEM Stone I Aisisting Lifeboat Trent class ON-1211 Geoige and Ivy Swanson The Crew gfgnza Medal Helmsman David Parry for his 'outstanding courage.
seamanship and...
Category: Services
Captain Richard James Trebilcock, of Newquay, Cornwall, Commodore of the Newquay Rowing Club, who died early in August at the age of sixty- eight, had served for seven years as an officer of the life-boat. He was appointed second coxswain in...
Category: Obituaries
Here are some of the many gifts received recently from the fighting services: £63 from a battalion in the Middle East; £36 from a battalion in Gibraltar; £128 from British troops in Iceland; £42 from an R.A.F. maintenance...
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To commemorate Tynemouth lifeboat station's centenary, in 1962, a stained glass window was dedicated in Christ Church, North Shields. It depicts the Original, 1789, Constance, on station in 1862,... - View image in PDF
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Easing in between the bow and stern waves of Yarmouth's 52ft Artin to run alongside at about 14 knots: a demanding exercise which is invaluable in training the helmsman to steer with one hand only, leaving the other for the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
THE fierce gales which are experienced j on the Northumbrian coast from time to i time cause a large number of casualties, ! and the brave Life-boatmen at Holy i Island have a fine list of rescues | standing to their credit. j Among them,...
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AT 2.15 ih the morning of 27th January a message was received at the Penlee life-boat station from the coast- guard that a ship appeared to be on fire near Gear Rock in Mounts Bay.
Twenty minutes later the motor life- boat...
Category: Services
BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—On the 2nd December the small screw-steamer Clan Alpine, of Leith, in entering the Kiver Tweed struck on the bar, turned broadside to the sea, and sank. The Life-boat Albert Victor was speedily launched and rescued the crew...
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