Atlantis Adventure makes fast in the safety of Baltimore Harbour after being given assistance by the town's relief Tyne class lifeboat. The 60ft sailing vessel had run into difficulties south of Fastnet Rock in a rough sea with a swell... - View image in PDF
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WHEN His Majesty the King was staying for a few days at Londeshorough Park last October, John Owston, the Coxswain superintendent of the Scar- borough Life-boat, was sent for by Lord Londesborough to assist the shooting parties. After the...
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The 52ft Arun lifeboat Richard Evans at her naming. In background. Galway's 52ft Burnett lifeboat Frank Spiller Locke. photographs by courtesy of Colin Watson. - View image in PDF
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Charles Dixon and the
Golden Age of Marine
Painting
by Stuart Boyd
Review by Carol Waterkeyn
Charles Dixon was one of the greatest maritime artists, living from 1872 to...
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(above) Alan Jones, coxswain of The Mumbles lifeboat draws the winning ticket for the Wales and West Mercia Region watched by David Steel, director of Volvo agents FRF Motors.. - View image in PDF
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HAUXLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND. — Two men returning from work early on the morning of the 15th March, 1890, saw the lights of a steamer ashore on the Bondicarr Beef. A strong S. wind was blowing, there was a heavy swell, and the weather I was hazy....
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GREAT YARMOUTH AND CAISTER. — On the 24th September, 1871, while it •was blowing strongly from the S.E., and a heavy sea was running, a vessel at anchor on a lee shore, near Caister, ex- hibited signals of distress. The No. 1 Life-boat on...
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In the case of the Walton rescue, the Life-boat James Stevens No. 14 was called out at 10.30 P.M. on the 29th December, a telephone message having reported that the s.s. Peregrine was ashore on the Longsand with about 60 passengers on board,...
ON the 1st January the Motor Life-boat at Stromness, in the Orkneys, performed a fine service which illustrates very clearly the value of motor-power. At 9.15 A.M. the news was received at Stromness from Birsay that a vessel was in distress...
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LLANDUDNO, CARNARVONSHIRE.—At 1.45 P.M. on the 1st January a signal of distress was shown by two men in a fishing-boat two miles off from land in Llandudno Bay. The men, father and son, had gone out to their fishing lines and were overtaken...
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