This exciting map affords the unique opportunity to see an Ordnance Survey I Ictorian First Edition (circa 1880) and a current Landranger map of your area side-by-side in a stunning presentation.
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The hull form of the Waveney is shown clearly as the first UK-built boat (44-002) undergoes her righting trial in October 1966. - View image in PDF
Note the flat sections aft to promote planing.. - View image in PDF
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On the 19th March, the Ramsgate Steamer and Life-boat, and the Broadstairs Life-boat Samuel Morrison Collins, saved the crew of 8 men from the brig Defender, of Sunderland, which was wrecked on the N.W. spit of the Goodwin Sands during a...
The Story of a Whitby Rescue.
[The following story of a family's gratitude to the Life-boat Service appeared in the " Yorkshire Evening Post " on 5th September last, from the paper's special...
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Cruiser foundered ON THE NIGHT of Saturday June 21, 1980, the motor cruiser Bay Monarch with four people on board ran aground on rocks and sank south of Swordale on the Eye Peninsula, Isle of Lewis.
The four survivors...
KINGSDOWN, KENT.—At 9.20 A.M. on the 13th April signals were fired by the South Sands Head Light-vessel indicating that a vessel was in distress on the Goodwin Sands. The crew of the Life-boat Charles Hargrave were quickly mustered and the...
JANUARY 26TH. - NEWBURGH, AND ABERDEEN, ABERDEENSHIRE. On the 25th January a very heavy storm of wind and snow broke on the coast. All roads and railways became blocked with snow, making traffic impossible, and telephone wires were broken....
When Ian Firman was appointed coxswain of Scarborough lifeboat in 1983 he was, at 27, one of the youngest men to have held that position. He joined the lifeboat crew in 1977 and became second coxswain in 1982. Serving the RNLI is fast... - View image in PDF
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On passage: a 24-hour sponsored sail to raise £300 for the RNLI was undertaken by nine 13-year-olds from Thrum Hall School in Rochdale. They took turns to helm a 16ft Wayfarer dinghy round Hollingworth Lake under the watchful eye of Lt... - View image in PDF
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RAMSGATE | 13 NOVEMBER
It was an early Sunday morning wake-up call for Ramsgate’s lifeboat crew, when their pagers went off just before 8am. A small yacht had collided with a container ship 24 miles east of Ramsgate, and was...
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