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The Cyprus-Registered Cargo Vessel Retriever
TWO BOATS AT SEA FOR A TOTAL OF 13 HOURS Escort for listing cargo boat in 70 knot winds Sennen Cove and Clovelly - South West Division Sennen Cove's relief Rother The Davys Family was launched in winds gusting up to 71 knots on 25 March...
Ten-Year-Old Peter Jensen of Highgate Sent £907 Collected With His Splendid Guy to Hornsey Branch the Rnli He Said In His Letter Is His Favourite Charity Photograph By
Ten-year-old Peter Jensen of Highgate sent £9.07, collected with his splendid guy, to Hornsey branch. The RNLI, he said in his letter, is his favourite charity. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Andrew Franks.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Samphire and Monsoon
Called out twice FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1987, found Scotland's Banffshire coast in the grip of force 6-7 east-south-easterly winds and rough seas, with overcast skies and rain squalls adding to the wintry scene.
At 1939 the...
An Aeroplane (34)
Nov. 20TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but when the life-boat reached her she found that the only man on board had swum ashore. The aeroplane was taken in tow by an R.A.F. launch. - Rewards, £5 5s....
Faith Star, Galilee, Provider A, Success, Lead Us and Pilot Me
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 18th of January, 1956, the weather deteriorated while six local fishing boats were still at sea, and it was decided that the no. 1 life-boat should launch to escort them into the harbour. At 10.54 the...
Vetlugales
RUSSIAN SEAMAN At 10 a.m. on nth November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a seaman in the Russian vessel Vetlugales needed medical aid. The vessel was moored near middle Shoebury buoy in a smooth sea and light airs...
Rescue of a Flying Boat.
The bronze medal for gallantry has been awarded to Cowwain Walter D. Crowther Qf Plymouth, and its thanks on vellum to each of the eight member* of his crew, for saviaj a flyicg boat and the two men on board her. The flying boat was at...
Category: Articles
Mac
Rhyl, Flintshire, and Hoylake, Cheshire.— —At 3.2 in the morning of the 7th December, 1948, the Rhyl coastguard telephoned that a flare had been seen six miles north-east by north of the pier, and the motor life-boat The Gordon Warren was...
Linnet
SEARCH FOR YACHT REPORTED ON FIRE Troon, Ayrshire. At 1.34, early on the morning of the 13th May, 1962, the coastguard told the honorary secretary a message had been received that a yacht was on fire somewhere in the Sound of Bute and said...