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and Coxswain Jack headed out towards Bell Rock. A few minutes later, when clear of the bar, the coxswain handed over to the second coxswain, who had injured his ankle and, as he was unable to get an answer on the intercom, went below to...
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Englishman, of Workington & Schooner Lewis Jane, of Drogheda
On the 23rd De- cember the brig Englishman, of Working- ton, and the schooner Louisa Jane, of Drogheda, while running for the river Boyne, became unmanageable through a sudden change of the wind, and drove on the South Bull in a heavy sea....
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j LIFEBOAT STOOD ON TRANSOM BY BREAKING SEA Seventeen saved from 75ft yacht aground in gale and 20ft breakers Two Hayling Island lifeboatmen, Roderick James and Frank Dunster, have been awarded the RNLI's Silver Medal for their part in...
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Steve Shaw Fright) Is Interviewed By Channel Television With the Assistance of Station Chairman Craig Osborne (Centre).
Below (l-r): Phill Cummins, Ray Brown and Barry Chick. - View image in PDF
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A Mysterious Gift
ON the balustrade in front of the headquarters of the Institution stands a half model of a life-boat which is also a collecting-box. When the box was opened on the morning of the 18th of April 84 farthings were found in it.
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Overlord
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At eight o'clock on the morning of the 26th of May, 1957, the Needles coastguard telephoned that the yacht Overlord, of Southampton, was in difficulties eight and a half miles south-west of...
Granada
At 8.25 on the morning of the 2nd January, a message was received from the Formby Light-vessel, stating that a steamer ap- peared to be aground on Taylor's Bank, and later the information was confirmed.
The Life-boat...
A Sea Otter Aeroplane
Appledore, Devon.—At 11.58 in the morning of the 15th of July, 1948, an urgent message was received, through the coastguard, from H.M.S. Harrier, that the pilot of a Fleet Air Arm aero- plane had baled out five to fifteen miles north-west of...
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South West Division German tug, Dutch coaster ON THE AFTERNOON of Tuesday January 3, 1984, the West German tug Fairplay X fouled her propeller in St Ives Bay while trying to pass a towline to the Netherlands coaster Orca; the coaster, her...
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Tunnel vision
St Abbs crew trusted each other with their lives in an outstandingly gallant rescue
‘This was something you can’t train for and something we’d never seen before. The decisions we made had to be...
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