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Brooke Marine Ltd.
Brooke Marine Ltd NAVAL ARCHITECTS . DESIGNERS . SHIPBUILDERS . ENGINEERS Naval Craft for the British, Commonwealth and Foreign Navies. Merchant and Special Purpose Vessels.
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Category: Advertisement
Life-Boats As Ambulances
AT 8.15 on the morning of 8th November last, the Motor Life-boat on the Humber was launched in a strong breeze, with a rough sea in answer to signals of distress, and after travelling for two hours at full speed found a steamtrawler, the...
Category: Articles
Scott, of Sunderland
On the 22nd Oct., in consequence of a telegram from Broadstairs, this invaluable boat proceeded in tow of the harbour steamer to the Kentish Knock Lightship, twenty-six miles from Ramsgate, which was reached an hour before midnight. Hailing...
New Ways of Raising Money
A jumble sale with unusual features was organised by Lady Templetown for the Kirkcudbright branch. The older clothes given for the sale were sold in the usual manner, but a number of Lady Templetown's young friends acted as models to...
Category: Donations
A Bronze Medal Service at Boulmer
SHORTLY after nine at night on 21st December the Boulmer (Northumber- land) Motor Life-boat L.P. and St.
Helen was launched to the help of a vessel which the Coxswain had seen to be aground on a reef of rocks off Seaton...
Category: Services
Coxswain Hewitt Clark
Coxswain Hewitt Clark Silver Medal Coxswain Hewitt Clark and the crew of Lerwick's Arun rescued 67 seamen from a stranded factory ship in appalling weather conditions on 31 October 1994. The lifeboat had to go into a narrow opening... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Building the Fast Slipway Lifeboat—Part I: Preparations
PART I: PREPARATIONS CONSTRUCTION HAS BEGUN of tWO prototypes of the RNLI's new 47ft fast slipway lifeboat. The boats are to be built by Fairey Marine at Cowes, Isle of Wight, but the start of building only comes as the culmination of...
Category: Articles
The Cross Sand Lightvessel
DEC. 20TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. The Cross Sand Light-vessel had made signals, but it was found that she was calling a trawler to sink mines which were floating dangerously close to her. - Rewards, £8 13s....
Victoria and Michael
Stranded! Filey's I) class inshore and allweather lifeboats were called to t he rescue of I 'iclima and Michael.
a 25ft llshiiii; \essel aground on rocks at Chimney Hole some two miles \\\ of the station on 9 August...
Fishing Cobles
On the morning of the 18th January, the coxswain reported that seven of the local motor fishing cobles were at sea and in danger owing to the very heavy sea. The pulling and sailing life-boat Arthur R. Dawes was launched at 9.15 A.M. and...