When Titanic survivor Mary Roberts climbed aboard a hospital steamship in October 1914, she hoped for a relatively straightforward passage to France. But what happened next put over 200 lives in danger – and made history...
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FAULTY PUMP At 5.24 p.m. on 27th June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been fired by a trawler two miles off Bury Holm in a southerly direction. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched at 5.37 in a...
Fifty cyclists are being sought to undertake a once-in-a-lifetime ride to the most northerly lifeboat station at Honningsvag, Northern Norway, during the Arctic Cycle Challenge, taking place between 18-26 July 1998, in aid of the... - View image in PDF
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'Who said Braintree did not need a lifeboat?' writes 15- year-old A. Taylor who took this photograph at Braintree's fun day on May 15. The D class inflatable lifeboat, he said, was really only there for display! Despite a partly... - View image in PDF
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TRADITIONALLY, when building a boat in wood, the first operation is the laying down of the keel from which is built up a framework of stem, transom, bulkheads and other transverse and longitudinal members. When building a small boat in steel...
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BROWSING through earlier issues of THE LIFE-BOAT is always a fascinating occupation.
Recently we have been sent to the files in search of information on the old tubular life-boats, in which several members of the public...
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About eight o'clock on the evening of 8th December, 1962, the trawler Boston Heron ran aground at Stilamair, an uninhabited island south-west of Scalpay in the Little Minch. A south- south-westerly gale was blowing, gusting to force 9,...
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