RNLI lifeguards on Cornwall’s Fistral Beach finished the season with a brand new base.
Previously, the lifeguards on one of the UK’s busiest beaches were working from metal storage containers (above). Now, they have a...
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‘ She was always very lucky: it’s amazing she survived.’
George Hewitt, Rescue Wooden Boats - View image in PDF
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DROGHEDA.—The barque Emanuele Accame, of Genoa, bound from Bremerhaven for Swansea, in ballast, was riding at anchor in a dangerous position, about two miles N. of the Boyne bar, having lost three her four masts, on the 13th...
THE public have to thank Dr. ALLNATT, of Frant, for an excellent review of the weather of the past twelve months. It is always pleasant to be able to correct one's vague recollections by an actual record; and there is, perhaps, no...
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COVER PICTURE by Rick Tomlinson A Trent class lifeboat on trials off Cowes in winds gusting to 50 knots. This is one of many spectacular photos which appear in Rick Tomlinson's 1996 Lifeboat Calendar. Details on page... - View image in PDF
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MANCHESTER HAVE THE SERVICES Containerships to & from Canada & U.S. Mid West For more information contact: MANCHESTER LINERS LIMITED P.O. Box 189, Manchester Liners House, Port of Manchester, Manchester M5 2XA.
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Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—3rd December, 1937. A derelict motor yacht was picked up, but had to be abandoned in a sinking condition. A boat from her, with some clothes and papers, wasbrought ashore. The crew had been rescued by a passing...
JULY 3RD. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
An aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but her crew of seven, who had taken to their dinghy, were picked up by a fishing boat.- Rewards, £5 10s. 6d..
Yarmouth, and Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 7.1 on the morning of the 13th of February, 1954, the S.S.
Ardgantock, of Greenock, wirelessed that she was listing badly and was in danger of foundering twelve miles west-by-...
About 1.30 P.M.
on the 17th February information was received that a steam drifter was aground on the Doom Bar, and as soon as it was seen that she had not refloated on the flood-tide the Life-boat Arab was dispatched to...