Eleven lifeboats in biggest ever Cardigan Bay searchCrew from nine lifeboat stations were united in a search for a missing power boat at Cardigan Bay. The Coastguard coordinated an extensive search involving 11 lifeboats, a rescue helicopter...
NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.—About 8 o'clock on the morning of the 9th February a messenger from Perran Zabuloe arrived at Newquay with intelligence that a vessel was at anchor, in a very, dangerous position, near Hoblyn's Cove, east of Perran...
At 10.17 on the morning of the llth of March, 1959, the honorary secretary of the Blyth, Northumberland, station, Captain H. Rowe, learnt from the coastguard that a vessel was in difficulties a hundred yards east of Blyth east pier...
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Fig. 1: Section 6, looking aft at main watertight bulkhead from inside engine room.
help keep the bilges dry and sound, must be installed. As extra protection against dry rot, the whole of the inside of the skin and all...
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BURNHAM, SOMERSETSHIRE. — On the morning of the 9th December, 1886, the barque Fremad, of Tonsberg, bound from West Bay, Nova Scotia, for Bristol, with deals and battens, showed signals of distress daring a heavy gale from the W. by N. The...
ALTHOUGH this is an enlarged number it has unfortunately again been neces- sary to hold over, owing to lack of space, the article on the new fast type of Motor Life-boat stationed at Dover ; the article on Grace Darling's coble at the...
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Some of the 31 yachts, including seven French boats, which took part in an Old Gaffers rally in Guernsey last August, racing for the Thomas Bucktrout Trophy; (I. to r.) Little Apple, Undine, Skipjack, the winner on handicap, Providence and... - View image in PDF
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The steamer Geir, of Bergen, whilst bound for Blyth in ballast, stranded on the Knavestone Rock, Fame Islands, on the night of the 18th February, during a northerly gale and heavy sea. Information reached the North Sunderland Life-boat...
The first all-weather 'Blue Peter' lifeboat, the Trent class Blue Peter VII, on trials before going to her station at Fishguard.. - View image in PDF
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