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The Royal Marine Landing Craft L.136
GROUNDED CREW A red flare sighted in the vicinity of the Bernbridge Ledge buoy on 14th June, 1971, led to the Bembridge, Isle of Wight, life-boat the Jack Shayler and the Lees being launched at 11.40 p.m.
in an east north...
A History of Bridlington Life-Boats
UNDER the title Men of the Storm, Mr.
H.'E. Whittaker, of Bridlington, has written the history of the Bridlington life-boat station. Mr. Whittaker has also produced and published the book himself and is generously...
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Anchors: Old Forms and Recent Developments
By Captain ANTHONY S. THOMSON, C.B., Elder Brother of Trinity House, Commander E.N.R.
Reprinted from the " Journal of tJie Royal United Service Institution," by permission.
There is little...
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Services of Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
SUFFOLK.—At 2.45 P.M.
on the 2nd May, 1901, the Cross Sand Lightship fired signals, which were repeated by the St. Nicholas Lightship, and in response the Life-boat Marie Lane was launched and was towed by the steam-tug...
Category: Services
A Rescue In An Irish Curragh
ON the 2nd September, 1932, two men had gone out from Dooey, Co. Donegal, in a curragh, to lift lobster-pots. The wind increased, and a heavy sea swamped and capsized the curragh.
Their cries for help were heard, and two...
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A Motor Boat
Coverack, Cornwall.—At 12.30 A.M.
on the 22nd June the coastguard reported that four visitors, two men and two women, had put out in a motor boat during the previous afternoon and had not returned. A light breeze was...
Lyn II
Clovelly, Devon. At ten o'clock on the morning of the 26th of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fish- ing boat Lyn II was reported missing.
Later it was learned that she had...
SEARCH FOR FISHERMEN
AT 5.28 p.m. on 25th November, 1970, flares were sighted off the Hook Tower, Co. Waterford.
The life-boat Douglas Hyde slipped her moorings at Dunmore East at 5.37 in a southerly gale with a very rough...
Category: Services
Four New Scottish Life-Boats Named
DURING the month of August, 1961, no fewer than four new life-boats were named in Scotland. The ceremonies took place at Aith on the 2nd August, at Whitehills on the 12th August, at Port- patrick on the 16th August, and at Buckie on the 26th...
Category: Inaugurations
Life-Boat House Wembley
LIFE-BOAT HOUSE at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley was kept open during the Exhibition's second year with the same exhibit of models, gear, pictures and relics as in 1924. A Watson Cabin Motor Life-boat was again the principal...
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