Walk Around Chanty BY CAPTAIN Q. C. A. CKAUFURD, R.N., Honorary Secretary of the Dungeness Life-boat Station.
" We were much relieved, when dawn broke, to see our boat beating home in the offing. As there had been no...
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Sir Samuel Kelly, the 46ft 9in Watson relief lifeboat on temporary duty at Courtmacsherry Harbour tows in Casse Tete V during the Fastnet storm. In all that day, Tuesday August 14, 1979, Courtmacsherry lifeboat, under the command of Coxswain... - View image in PDF
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This photograph shows Silloth's Atlantic 21, at speed in the Solway Firth and apparently about to be attacked by a U.F.I. (Unidentified Flying Insect!).
Unbeknown to photographer.
Jimmy Graham, the... - View image in PDF
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COVER PICTURE by Mike Floyd The Princess Roval (Civil Service No.
41) is launched for the first time at St Ives in Cornwall. The Mersey class lifeboat arrived at the station on 16 October and was recovered and immediately... - View image in PDF
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MARCH 14TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.
A rubber dinghy, supposed to have come from a crashed aeroplane, had been reported south of Girvan, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £4 15s..
FEBRUARY 4TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
The French cargo steamer Commandant Charles Merie had been mined six miles N.E. of Sunk Light-vessel, but her crew of twenty-nine were picked up by a Dutch motor vessel. - Rewards,...
Torbay, Devon.—1st August, 1938.
Lights had been seen at sea, but a search revealed nothing.—Rewards, £9 13s..
Kingstown, Co. Dublin.—1st August.
A small sailing boat was reported to drifting in the bay, but nothing was found.—Rewards, £11 6s..
DECEMBER 1ST. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.
Rockets had been reported, but no vessel in distress could be found. - Rewards, £16 14s. 6d..
Exmouth, Devon.—At 9.30 on the night of the 28th of September, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that three red flares had been seen eight to ten miles south of Lyme Regis, and that an R.A.F. rescue launch was putting out to search. At 9.48...