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Lifeboat station histories The Story of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Lifeboats (new) The Story of the Exmouth Lifeboats (updated 3rd edition) The Story of the Whitby Lifeboats (updated 3rd edition) all by Jeff Morris published by the...
Category: Articles
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OLD LIFEBOAT, NEW COUNTRY
Some years after I had retired as Mallaig lifeboat Coxswain/Mechanic, I discovered that my old Arun class lifeboat (pictured) had been sold to the Icelandic Rescue Service. So, after a deal of...
Category: Articles
Your Letters
Lifeboatmen brought to book.
I am currently researching a book on men whose lives have been closely connected with the coasts of the British Isles. This work will be in a similar vein to my recently published Tales of the...
Category: Correspondence
Berend N.
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 1.40 on the afternoon of the 7th of January, 1954, the Needles coastguard tele- phoned that the motor vessel Berend N., of Delfzijl, had sent a distress message five miles south-east of the Needles. At 1.54 the...
First Knight
The Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum has been awarded to Paul Gilson, helmsman of the Southend lifeboat, following the rescue of two people from the yacht First Knight in appalling weather conditions.
At 1351...
Rescue (continued)
A FAMILY DAY OUT
HOLYHEAD | 7 JUNE
An experienced sailor and his 5-year-old grandson got driven aground in their 8m cruiser, after getting snagged in lobsterpot lines. They were spotted by nearby walkers, who quickly...
Category: Articles
H.M. Submarine Universal
FEBRUARY 4TH - 6TH. - ST. DAVID’S AND FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE, AND NEW QUAY, AND ABERYSTWYTH, CARDIGANSHIRE.
H.M. submarine Universal was on her way to the breaker’s yard. Late on the night of the 3rd of February her...
Before Winter Sets In Coxswain Frank Bloom Checks Mooring Chains and Anchors of Walton and Frinton 46' 9" Watson Lifeboat Edian Courtauld Helped By Divers John
Before winter sets in, Coxswain Frank Bloom checks mooring chains and anchors of Walton and Frinton 46' 9" Watson lifeboat Edian Courtauld helped by divers John Wilcox and Peter Horlock with Crew Member Brian Oxley, Bowman Bobby... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Corea
SWANSEA.— On the 10th February,during a strong gale from S.S.E., veering to S.W., with a very heavy sea, signals of distress were shown by the barque Corea, of Boston, U.S., which had stranded on the " Greengrounds " in Swansea Bay...
Eglantine, of Whitby
On the 10th Oct., the large Life-boat on this station put off, in reply to signals of distress, during a heavy gale from the S.S.W., and found the brig Eglantine, of Whitby, in a disabled state near the Cockle Lightship. She had broken from...