The s.s. Mahratta, of Liverpool, a large steamer of 5,698 tons register, stranded on the Goodwin Sands on the 9th April, whilst bound from Calcutta to London with passengers and cargo. The weather was fine at the time. In response to signals...
The naming ceremony for the new Longhope, Orkney, life-boat took place on 27th May, beside Longhope pier. The new life-boat is the David and Elizabeth King and E.B.—a 48-foot 6-inch Solent—and has been paid for by legacies left by Miss...
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TAKEN TO HOSPITAL Penlee, Cornwall. At 11.30 a.m. on 2ist March, 1964, the port medical officer told the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Andania would arrive off Penzance at 5 p.m. bearing a sick man on board who needed hospital...
Port Erin, Isle of Man.—At 3 A.M. on the 4th April the coastguard reported that a steamer off the Calf of Man was sounding her siren, as if in distress. The wind was light and the sea smooth, but there was a very thick fog. The motor...
The Whitby lite-boat Mary Ann Hepworth, a 41-foot Watson, heading into a moderate sea.. - View image in PDF
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(Left) To welcome home Salcombe's 47ft Watson lifeboat The Baltic Exchange, after her capsize in 1983 and complete survey and overhaul which followed, piper Gordon McCormack, landlord of The Shipwright's Arms, boarded the station'... - View image in PDF
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A cheese and wine party organised by South London District Office together with Eltham ladies' guild at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, last November, made a profit of £905. The photograph shows part of the abundant raffle and... - View image in PDF
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DRAGGING ANCHOR Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 7 p.m.
on ist October, 1964, the coxswain was informed that the wife of the owner of the cabin cruiser Baltic Lily had asked for help to save the boat, in which they...
Contents Volume XLIX Number 493 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLL Director and Secretary: REAR ADMIRAL W J GRAHAM CB MNI Editor: EDWARD WAKE-WALKER Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1HZ...
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The Big Plunge: A group of North Devon servicemen took the plunge for charity. Eighteen divers from RAF Chivenor and Locking Sub Aqua Clubs leapt from Barnstaple bridge to raise £600. It took three hours for the men to float four miles... - View image in PDF
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