North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 1.10 in the afternoon of the 19th of December, 1949, a wireless message picked up by the Fifeness coastguard and sent to the Seahouses coastguard said that a workman engaged on the reconstruction of the...
ALL FUEL LOST At 4.25 p.m. on 29th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small fishing vessel six miles south-east of Berwick Pier was flying an oilskin from her mizzen. The life-boat William and Mary Durham was...
Rhyl, Flintshire - At 1.14 p.m. on 20th May, 1967, it was learned that an upturned dinghy was drifting in the direction of Rhyl one mile off the Golden Sands holiday camp. The life-boat Anthony Robert Marshall was launched at 1.25 in a gale...
7th January.
Rockets fired from an hotel at Slapton mistaken for distress signals close inshore.—Rewards, £ 14 Os. 6d..
Used on board H.M.S Dorsetshire, at Hongkong, when the ship's company subscribed £31 5s.
for the Life-boat Service.
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Bridlington, Yorkshire. — 28th July, 1938. A rowing boat had been reported missing, but after a search she was found at anchor close to the shore.
—Rewards, £13 5s..
Right The new Tyne class lifeboat at Ramsgate, Kenneth Thelwall II, pictured leaving Ramsgate after her naming ceremony. - View image in PDF
(Photo Jeff Morris). - View image in PDF
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Front Cover Dun Laoghaire's new Trent classAnna Livia drives through the windblown spray as she demolishes a wave at 25 knots. - View image in PDF
by Rick Tomlinson. - View image in PDF
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Length 4.9m (16ft) Beam 2m (6ft 7in) Displacement Approx 745lb Speed 20 knots Endurance 3 hours at max. - View image in PDF
speed Crew 2 or 3 Construction Nylon coated with hypalon. - View image in PDF
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The Welsh Guards' answer to Robson and Jerome at the Pembroke ladies lifeboat guild's 'musical farewell'. - View image in PDF
Photo: Martin Cavaney Photography. - View image in PDF
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