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Winaway of Lowestoft

Date: January 1970

Volume: 41

Issue: 430

Caister, Norfolk - At 11.27 a.m. on llth August, 1969, it was learnt that the motor vessel Norwich Belle had sighted a fishing vessel in difficulties near the South Caister shoal buoy.

The life-boat Royal Thames was...

Hunstanton's Atlantic 21Class Lifeboat Spirit of America

Date: Summer 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 509

Hunstanton's Atlantic 21class lifeboat Spirit of America is capable of some 29 knots. Helmsman Alan Clarke said of her: 'Speed is one of her greatest assets and can be paramount in saving life - but she can only be driven as hard as... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Alf Everard and the S.S. Sir Alexander Kennedy

Date: March 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 367

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 6.39 on the evening of the 24th of December, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that a steamer had wirelessed that another steamer had collided with the motor vessel Alf Everard, of London, off Sea Reach. At 6.55...

The "Van Kook" Life-Boat Saving a Shipwrecked Crew on the Goodwin Sands

Date: February 1880

Volume: 11

Issue: 115

The "VAN KOOK" LIFEBOAT SAVING A SHIPWRECKED CREW on the Goodwin Sands.

Category: Drawings

Melfort

Date: Autumn 1981

Volume: 48

Issue: 478

Ketch founders RAMSEY COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Port St Mary lifeboat station at 0846 on Sunday May 17, 1981. that a yacht was aground at Derby Haven, east of Castletown; she was on the seaward side of the breakwater and...

A Canoe

Date: December 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 422

Weymouth, Dorset - At 12.50 a.m.

on gth June, 1967, it was felt that two people who had put out in a canoe from Weymouth beach might be in difficulties.

The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke slipped her...

International Boat Show 1974

Date: Winter 1974

Volume: 43

Issue: 447

EARLS COURT, January 2-12DIM - BUT BUOYANTDESPITE a background of national anxiety, reduced opening hours and minimum heat and light, the 1974 International Boat Show at Earls Court was, as always, a buoyant and happy prologue to the new...

Category: Articles

Robert

Date: February 1888

Volume: 13

Issue: 147

REDCAR.—On the morning of the 7th September the sloop Robert, of Hull, which had been anchored for three weeks off Redcar, engaged in removing portions of the wreck of a steamer, weighed her anchor and made sail, her position having become...

Split-Second Timing Is Needed With Many Manoeuvres None More So Than the Emergency Beaching Procedure - the Outboards Must Be Raised at Exactly the Right Moment

Date: Autumn 1988

Volume: 51

Issue: 506

Split-second timing is needed with many manoeuvres, none more so than the emergency beaching procedure - the outboards must be raised at exactly the right moment. - View image in PDF

(Photo David Parker). - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Glynn

Date: November 1885

Volume: 12

Issue: 138

HAVLE, CORNWALL.-—The brigantine Glynn, of Plymouth, while running for Hayle, during a strong N.W. gale and a heavy sea, on the morning of the llth September, struck the bar and remained fast, the sea making a clean breach over her. The crew...