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Hawker Siddeley Nimrod—The World's First Pure Jet Maritime Reconnaissance Aircraft—Of No. 120 Squadron, R.A.F. Kinloss, Morayshire (Left), the Well-Tried Avro Shackleton Used for Search and R
Hawker Siddeley Nimrod—the world's first pure jet maritime reconnaissance aircraft—of No. 120 Squadron, R.A.F. Kinloss, Morayshire (left), the well-tried Avro Shackleton used for search and rescue (right), R.A.F. rescue/target towing... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rescue from Steamer Aground on Rocks
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...
Category: Services
The Bridlington Life-Boat Escorting a Local Fishing Boat Into the Harbour on 23rd January, 1967
The Bridlington life-boat escorting a local fishing boat into the harbour on 23rd January, 1967.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Tradesman and Masterman
Penlee, Cornwall.—About one o'clock on the afternoon of the llth of Novem- ber, 1950, the coastguard reported an S.O.S. message from the tug Tradesman.
The tug Masterman, of Falmouth, at anchor in Mounts Bay with a crew...
Bookshelf
Lifeboat station histories Wick Lifeboat by Ian Cassells published by Cluny Publishers at £3.50 Subtitled '150 Years of Tireless Service' this A5-size softback is a full and informative history of the saving of life at sea in...
Category: Articles
(Right) Lt Cdr Brian Miles Inserts the Final Piece
(right) Lt Cdr Brian Miles inserts the final piece in the jigsaw - a symbolic completion of the seven-year plan to have fast lifeboats at every one of the RNLI's lifeboat stations.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Castlemaine
BALLYWALTER, Co. DOWN.—On the 4th March, at about 1 A.M., intelligence was received that a ship had stranded in Ballybalbert Bay, three miles south of this Life-boat Station. The wind was blowing a hurricane from the S.E., with heavy sleet...
The First All-Weather 'Blue Peter' Lifeboat, the Trent Class Blue Peter VII, on Trials Before Going to Her Station at Fishguard.
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
Category: Photographs
Durdham
New Tyne keeps disabled tug off Devon rocks Salcombe - South West Division The qualities of Salcombe's new Tyne class lifeboat Baltic Exchange II were put to the test on 21 October 1988 in a service which led to the coxswain, Frank Smith...
Tsunami
141 hour service in severe gale A MESSAGE FROM THE YACHT Coronade to the Sunk Pilot Cutter, saying that a red flare had been sighted southward, in the direction of the Long Sand, was intercepted by Walton Coastguard at 1621 on Sunday,...