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damage. He also felt it would be too dangerous to try to close alongside.
Instead, he instructed his crew to prepare a tow and moved the lifeboat, stern-first, towards the casualty's port bow. The occupants could be...
Category: Services
When the Wind Blows Up In Douglas Bay: Monas Queen Car Ferry from Liverpool Ploughing In Through This Year's January Gales Photograph By Courtesy of W S B
When the wind blows up in Douglas Bay: Monas Queen, car ferry from Liverpool, ploughing in through this year's January gales. . . . - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of W, S. Basnett. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Twenty-One Months of War.
In the first twenty-one months of war life-boats have rescued 3816 lives.
They have rescued more lives in the twenty-one months of war than in the last ten years of peace. They have rescued 42 lives every week..
Category: Articles
Mrs Doris Chippindale,
Mrs Doris Chippindale, a member of Bradford ladies' guild for over 40 years and chairman for three years. She was awarded a Silver badge in 1974..
Category: Obituaries
Congratulations to Northenden Branch
Congratulations to Northenden branch for making the Institution's presence at the Manchester show a huge success.
Supported by colleagues from Stretford and Timperley branches and friends from Stretford Sea Cadets, the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Moringen
ABERDOVEY.—The brig Moringen, of Drammen, Norway, timber laden, stranded in a strong N.N.W. gale and a very heavy sea on the 16th June and became a total wreck. On receipt of news of the casualty, the Life-boat Thomas Nieeolls Stratford was...
Crown of India
DUNGENBSS,KENT.—About 5.30 A.M. on the 26th April the Coastguard watchman sent a message to the Life-boat Station that a four-masted barque was ashore in West Bay. The Coxswain promptly assembled his crew and launched the Life-boat R.A.O.B....
C. S. Parnell
Wicklow. — On the evening of the 17th of May, 1950, the local fishing boat C. S. Parnell, with a crew of four, left for the fishing ground five miles south of Wicklow. The weather grew bad, a fresh north-easterly wind causing a rough sea....
Gava
Longhope, Orkneys.—At 10.30 on the night of the llth of April, 1955, the Kirkwall coastguard rang up to say that the steam trawler Gava, of Aber- deen, wrhich had a crew of thirteen, had reported that she had gone ashore at Duncansby Head....
Soudan
Dungeness, Kent.—At 3.30 A.M. on the j 13th December the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore half a mile S.S.E. of Jury's Gap coastguard station. There was a thick fog, a moderate N.W. wind and a ground swell. As the tide was...