6th June. A small boat was in difficulties, but made land at Birchington without help.—Re- wards, £8 11s..
The motor mechanic is standing at the top of the ladder leading down to the engine-room.. - View image in PDF
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Coxswain Jack Sugrue and District Inspector H Ackworth at sea off Valentia, 20 December 1960. - View image in PDF
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Teams line up to rare for the 2003 Inter Services Trophy at Newbiggin-by-the-Sea. - View image in PDF
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Above: Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott at the launch of the Thames initiative in January.. - View image in PDF
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The life-boat calendar for 1943 will shortly be ready. It will have on it a reproduction in colours of a painting of Coxswain Edward Drake Parker, of Margate, who won the D.S.M. for helping to bring off over 600 men of the B.E.F. from the...
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YACHT'S CREW FOUND EXHAUSTED Hastings, Sussex. Following a telephone call from the motor mechanic to the honorary secretary at 5.0 on the afternoon of Tuesday the 3rd September, 1963, it was decided to launch the lifeboat M.T.C.,...
Seaspray and Whisky
by Norman Freeman
Review by Sam Barnes
Though I’m a fan of books with a maritime theme I didn’t quite know what to expect from Seaspray and Whisky. It is based on...
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AT 8.30, in the evening of 21st November, 1927, the Motor Life-boat at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston was launched in response to a wireless message received from s.s. Trent that help was urgently required to save the lives of the crew of the...
CHANNEL SEARCH It was learnt at 4.15 a.m. on 11th January, 1971, that an explosion had taken place at sea about one and a half miles west of the Varne Bank and that a tug was making for the spot. It was later established that the tanker...