On the 10th February, two boys in a small boat persisted in going out of the harbour, in spite of warnings which they received from men on the pier, and drifted helplessly towards the Scroby sands on which a rough sea was breaking. Five men...
The Old Stromness Life-Boat Leaves For Ireland. - View image in PDF
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A Welcome Sight Selsey Lifeboat City London To The Rescue. - View image in PDF
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Above right - the stricken gas fuel oil tanker, Blackf riars. - View image in PDF
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Haylmg Island - fighting a battle against the shingle.. - View image in PDF
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Services of the Life-boats of the Institution in...
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AMONGST the various articles designed to save life on occasions of disaster to ships, perhaps one of the most natural was a seaman's bed or mattress, composed of buoyant materials. Since the space on shipboard for the stowage of anything...
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Barrow, Lancashire - At 2.45 a.m.
on 28th September, 1966, news was received that an air search had been in operation since the previous day for the yacht J.B.W., which was overdue at Glasson dock on passage from the Isle...
OCT. 20TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET. At 8.18 A.M. the Swanage coastguard reported that the Greek steamer S.S. Turkia had grounded one mile and a half N.W. by W.
of St. Albans Head, but was not flying distress signals. About 9.25...
The crab boat Mistletoe, of Clovelly, went off to haul the pots in the early morning of the 4th May, and when returning was overtaken by a gale. Men went to see if the boat could be seen, but it was not until 2 P.M. that it was reported that...