(Right) The divisional inspector of lifeboats is responsible for the efficient operation of lifeboats in his area and carries out frequent exercises with his coxswains and crews. He works in close co-operation with the district engineer, who... - View image in PDF
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Barry Dock, Glamorganshire - At 4.2 p.m. on 27th November, 1968, the coastguard told the coxswain that a yacht was in difficulties close inshore in Font-y-Gary bay. The life-boat Arthur and Blanche Harris, on evaluation trials at the station...
The simple, almost stark lines of the the boathouse for the carriage-launched Mersey at Dungeness echo the emptiness of the low-lying shingle peninsula on which it stands. To the south the nuclear power station forms an unmistakable man-made... - View image in PDF
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JANUARY 29TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. At 10.14 P.M. a message was received from the Berry Head coastguard that a Belgian trawler was seen to be dragging her anchors, close to Daddyhole A strong E.S.E. wind was blowing, with a very rough sea. At...
RNLI open days give supporters the chance to get up close and personal with state-ofthe- art lifeboats and the volunteers who crew them.
The charity’s Headquarters and Lifeboat College in Poole open their doors to the...
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TYRELLA, DUNDBUM: BAT.—Signals of distress having been shown by a vessel which was close to the Long Rocks, during a moderate gale from the S., thick weather, and a rough sea, on the morning of the 1st December, the Life-boat Louisa Burnaby...
ON 29th September, 1925, the trawler Rig, of Ramsgate, was wrecked off Tolpedn, Cornwall, in a thick fog, when returning from a fishing voyage at Swansea. She had nine men on board.
Seven of the nine were rescued from the...
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— About 4 A..M. on the 26th Jan., at which time it was blowing a gale from S.E., a pilot cutter discovered the wreck of the three-masted schooner No. 4, of j Arundel, on the Abertay Sands ; she there- \ upon bore up to communicate with the j...
ARBROATH.—Notice was received at about 7 A.M. on the 23rd of January, during a fresh E. wind and a very heavy I sea, that the fishing boat 106, of Arbroath, was in danger outside the harbour bar.
The People's Journal No...
BROUGHTY FERRY.—On the 4th of September two vessels were reported to be ashore at the mouth of the River Tay. A severe south-easterly "gale was blowing at the time, and a heavy sea was breaking on the Tay Bar. The English Mechanic...