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Date: Spring 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 536

The Story of the Filey Lifeboats The Story of the Buckie Lifeboats by Jeff Morris published by the author, prices and availability in text Two more new editions of Jeff Morris's authoritative lifeboat station histories, each brought...

Category: Articles

A 23' Westerly Pageant Yacht

Date: Spring 1977

Volume: 45

Issue: 460

Electric storm INFORMATION THAT MOTOR YACHT Zaire was standing by a yacht in distress three miles south west of Anvil Point came from HM Coastguard to Swanage lifeboat station deputy launching authority at 1915 on Friday, September 24,...

Snow Joke: Pity This Poor Fund Raiser;

Date: Spring 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 496

Snow joke: pity this poor fund raiser; after a hard morning in March with his collecting box outside Rod White's fish shop in Cray don, during which time he collected a magnificent £27.10, he sadly disappeared into a premature, and... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

S.S. Gripfast and S.S. Stanburn

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

JANUARY 29TH. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. At 1.50 P .M. a message came from the Bridlington coastguard that rockets had been seen eight to ten miles E.S.E. of the coastguard station. A strong E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea.

The Fishing Boats- Enterprise, Rosa, Comfort and Provider

Date: November 1932

Volume: 28

Issue: 312

About 10 A.M. on the 26th September, a N.E. breeze increased to gale force, causing the sea to break heavily at the harbour entrance, and making it very dangerous to cross the bar. As the motor fishing boats Enterprise, Rosa, Comfort and...

Stormalong

Date: September 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 373

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.37 oil the morning of the 18th of May, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a yacht was burning a flare near West Shoebury Buoy. At 6.10 the life- boat Greater London II, Civil Service No. 30, which had been...

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Date: September 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 405

SICK BOY TAKEN OFF ISLAND Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 9.45 on the evening of the 20th April, 1963, the life-boat motor mechanic informed the coastguard that he could see a fire on Copeland Island, where he knew about eight people were spending...

Reaper

Date: Winter 2002

Volume: 58

Issue: 559

Seven saved ...along with an historic boatIn the early hours of 8 August 2001, the historic fishing vessel Reaper was on passage from Anstruther to Hartlepool in gale force conditions and rough seas. The 100-year-old herring drifter was...

Decks Awash In a Near Gale Padstow's 48' 6" Oakley Lifeboat James and Catherine Macfarlane Tows Home the 90' Beam Fishing Trawler Elizabeth Ann Webster Which Ha

Date: Summer 1975

Volume: 44

Issue: 453

Decks awash in a near gale, Padstow's 48' 6" Oakley lifeboat, James and Catherine Macfarlane, tows home the 90' beam fishing trawler, Elizabeth Ann Webster, which had broken down off Tintagel Head. Photograph by courtesy of... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The Cross Sand Lightvessel

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

DEC. 20TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. The Cross Sand Light-vessel had made signals, but it was found that she was calling a trawler to sink mines which were floating dangerously close to her. - Rewards, £8 13s....