LYDD AND NEW ROMNEY, KENT.—On the morning of the 25th November, during a fresh gale from the W.S.W., and a heavy sea, the barque Haab, of Moss, Norway, bound from New York to Rotterdam, with a cargo of grain, grounded on the outer end of the...
Shoreham Harbour's D class inflatable lifeboat on exercise. Inflatable lifeboats have been stationed at Shoreham for the summer season, from April to October, since 1967. In that time they have launched 450 times anil rescued 233 people.... - View image in PDF
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THE Twenty-sixth Annual Meeting of this excellent Institution, established for the purpose of relieving, by food, clothes, and money, shipwrecked sailors of all nations cast upon the coasts of the United Kingdom, was held last summer at the...
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July 31: Aberdeen lifeboat, the 54ft Arun BP Forties, helicopter in tow. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of RNAS Lossiemouth. - View image in PDF
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Mr. H. Jenkins, of Lowestoft, whose life-boat photographs will be familiar to readers of the Institution s journal, has published a "fishing fleet" calendar for 1943, with 14 beautiful photographs of the sea. Price 43. 6d.,...
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At 12.45 a.m. on 27th June, 1966, concern was felt for the safety of the yacht Deux Amis and her crew of four.
She was overdue on passage from Granville and the weather was rapidly deteriorating.
There was...
On the 21st April, at 4 P.M., the Lifeboat was launched in a strong S.S.W.
wind and a heavy sea, and remained out three hours, rendering assistance to fishing- boats which had been overtaken by the storm..
The ketch Swan, of Grimsby, and the barge Harwich, of Harwich, the former carrying a crew of four hands and the latter three hands, stranded about three miles S.S.W.
of Gibraltar Point during a moderate northerly gale and...
The kind of conditions in which Aberystwyth's C class lifeboat operates - and this is a relatively quiet day.. - View image in PDF
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