Signals of distress were exhibited by a large full-rigged ship about two miles and a half to the north- ward of this place, on the 22nd of Octo- ber, whereupon the Benjamin Bond Gabbell life-boat was launched, and proceeded to the vessel,...
Whitby, Yorkshire.—The motor fishing boats Endeavour, Pilot Me and Success left harbour for the fishing grounds at about 4 A.M. on the 12th February, 1938. A few hours later the wind got up rapidly, and by 10 A.M.
a gale...
In Trifle, a 40' trimaran built at Wadesbridge in 1966, General Farrant found a cruising boat which would plane like a dinghy. In her he held the record for the offshore Crystal Trophy race from 1968-1975—and completed a Round the Island... - View image in PDF
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Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 8.20 a.m.
on 16th November, 1965, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessels Winifred and Lead Us were still at sea and conditions for entering harbour were...
On the night of the 24th January, the brig Britain's Pride, of Fal- mouth, went ashore on the South Brake Sand, near the Goodwin Sands. The Bradford life-boat was quickly manned and taken out in tow of the harbour steam-tug Vulcan, and...
Arwed Emminghaus (below), a 26.6 m rescue cruiser with daughter boat from the Federal Republic of Germany. Other foreign lifeboats which will visit Plymouth are Sigurd Golje, a 78' patrolling steel lifeboat from Sweden; Patron Emil... - View image in PDF
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How to clean up for the lifeboats.
Barrie Davis, studio manager of Dawson Strange Photography in Cobham (wearing Shoreline sweater) undertook to sell off in aid of the RNLI cleaning products which his firm had been... - View image in PDF
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Antique valuers Mr W. Cooper of Boulton and Cooper Ltd and Mr N. Brooksbank of Christie's Ltd, York, intent on items brought to them by guests at Helmsley ladies guild's antiques valuation evening held at Queen Mary's School,... - View image in PDF
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On the! 6th December, the. brig Eliza, of Middlesboroxigh, was driven on the bar at the Tees' mouth. The Institution's life-boat at Seaton-Carew was soon launched, and proceeded through a high sea to the aid of her crew, 7 in number,...