RUSSIAN VESSEL At 9.50 a.m. on I4th October, 1964, a shipping agency in Hull telephoned the coxswain superintendent saying that a woman aboard the Russian cargo vessel Jushnij Bug was severely ill and needed medical attention. At 10.30 the...
Rescue at sea By Clayton Evans Published by Chrysalis Books ISBN 0851779344 Price: £35 Canadian Coast Guard Coxswain Clayton Evans has spent a decade gathering material from all over the world to create this reference and general...
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Ramsgate, Kent.—20th April. The motor vessel Hebe, of Rotterdam, had grounded on the Goodwin Sands, but got off when the tide rose.—Rewards, £5 8s..
The Hastings Motor Mechanic Has A Day Off. - View image in PDF
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Coxswain Rodney Terry of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly. He first joined the lifeboat crew in 1965, became second coxswain in 1984 and coxswain in 1985. In his working life he is a foreman stevedore, responsible for supervising the loading... - View image in PDF
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On board the Motor Life-boat " Robert and Marcella Beck.". - View image in PDF
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FIFTY years ago, i.e. on the 20th of Octo- ber, 1842, there was laid to rest in her early grave, amid the stormy surround- ings of her short life, one of the greatest heroines the world has ever known. After this lapse of time the story of...
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'The Spanish Trawler Tulipan Aground Off Monach Isles. - View image in PDF
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CARNSORE, Co. WEXFORD.—On the 25th August the yacht Linda, of Bray, having been caught in a gale of wind from the N.E. on a lee shore, with only two men on board, who had no provisions, those men remained in great peril for some...
WHITBURN.—The William and Charles Life-boat was launched at about 4.30 P.M.
on the 5th October and rescued the crew, consisting of six men, from the schooner Theodor, of Riga, which stranded on Whitburn Stile during a S.E....