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Inflatable searches in 'huge' surf on Cornish coastBude's D class lifeboat often has to launch through heavy surf, but a service on 3 July in exceptional conditions has brought the helmsman Paddy Frost and crew members Jonathan...
Chaften Winkle, of Aalborg
The life-boat and the steamer also went out on the evening of the 14th January, in reply to signals and rockets fired from the Gull light-ship, during very threatening weather.
On speaking the light-vessel, the men were...
H. M. S. Sappho
In the dense fog which prevailed in the Channel on the night of the 19th June, H.M.S. Sappho collided with another vessel off Dunge- ness. By a strange coincidence the colliding ship was also named the Sappho. The position of the cruiser...
Loddon
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 3.51 in the afternoon, on the 9th of May, 1950, the coastguard reported a vessel off the harbour blowing for help. At four o'clock the life-boat Michael Stephens put out in a thick fog. The sea was heavy with a...
Mr Cyril Gadd
AUGUST 1991 Mr Cyril Gadd, a committee member of the Hitchin and District branch since its formation in 1982..
Category: Obituaries
A Steamer (40)
NOVEMBER 6TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
A steamer had struck a mine, but she had sunk by the time the life-boat arrived.
The life-boat was then asked by a destroyer to search for a boat containing seven of...
Prototypes of a New Fast Slipway Lifeboat
WITH THE TIME APPROACHING when the RNLI's 46ft 9in and 47ft Watson class housed lifeboats will reach the end of their station lives, preparations have been going ahead over the past few years for their replacement by a new fast slipway...
Category: Articles
Cogswell & Harrison Ltd
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Category: Advertisement
Past and Present
Years Ago The following article appeared in the March, 1937 issue of THE LIFEBOAT: Fifty-two Lives Rescued.
A Bronze-Medal Service at Torbay.
Early in the morning of 23rd January the 4,000-ton steamer...
Category: Articles
Tafner
Cloughey, Co. Down.—At 3.35 on the afternoon of the 26th of June, 1957, the motor mechanic and bowman reported to the honorary secretary that a small yacht was aground on North Rock. At four o'clock the life-boat Constance Calverley was...