JULY 15TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
A steamer was reported to have been bombed and sunk by enemy aeroplanes, but the lifeboat found nothing except a patch of oil.
Another vessel picked up an injured man in a...
ONE of the chief difficulties which has been experienced by the builders of life-boats, has been that of making the air-cases and compartments, which form their extra buoyancy, perfectly water-tight. Different expedients have been tried, but...
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NOVEMBER 6TH. - ARKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.
During the afternoon the motor fishing boat Dan O’Connell, of Arklow, with a crew of five, ran out of fuel as she was coming in, and anchored. A strong S.W. wind was blowing, with a...
Humber, Yorkshire - At 12.25 a.m.
on 13th October, 1968, it was learnt that a small boat with five men aboard was ashore near Patrington Haven. As the tide was ebbing the small boat was in no immediate danger. The boarding...
Length 14.26m (46ft 9in) Beam 4.9m (16ft 1in) Displacement 27.5 tonnes Speed 25 knots Range 250 n. miles Crew 6 Construction Fibre Reinforced Composite (FRC). - View image in PDF
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4KINGSWIFT 26' This G.R.P. Production is designed, Moulded, completed and Marketed direct by WILLIAM OSBORNE LTD.
Raked Vee Transom, Full headroom, Four berths.
Walk round...
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The Duke coming ashore from the 52ft Arun lifeboat Arun at Barry Dock. - View image in PDF
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London, April 14, 1988 The launch of an appeal to churches of all denominations in 1984 culminated in an historic ceremony at St Katharine Dock, London on Thursday, April 14, when the Most Reverend and Right Honourable Robert Runcie, MC, DD...
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IN various parts of the Life-boat Journal, we have expressed a strong conviction of the utter inadequacy of all existing means for affording succour to shipwrecked persons around our coasts. We have mourned over it as a national discredit,...
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Help for Jolie Brise THE GAFF CUTTER Jolie Brine, on her way back from Oslo to Harwich on the second leg of the 1978 Tall Ships Race, made to put in to Lowestoft for repairs after two days of gales during which, due to rigging failure, she...