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St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 10.32 a.m. on 23rd November, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that an aircraft had come down in the sea in the St. Bride's bay area and her crew of two had baled out. The life-boat Joseph Soar...
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FEBRUARY 2ND. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. Flares had been reported two miles off Troup Head, but nothing could be found. - Rewards £7 6s. 6d.
Peep Into the Past
100 years ago The Autumn ' 906Life-boatJournat congratulated female fundraisers for their hard work after another successful Lifeboat Saturday: 'They are less ready to take a refusal than the "sterner"sex, and, this being...
Category: Articles
Air Bag Installation
BUILT TO SPECIFICATIONS probably not exceeded by any ship afloat; subjected to exhaustive commissioning trials; maintained with jealous care by coxswain, mechanic and crew; watched over by divisional inspector, district surveyor and engineer...
Category: Articles
Wet But Home the Plymouth Lifeboat Crew on the Early Morning of February 16: (I to R) Ray Jago Ian Watson Cyril Alcock Keith Rimmer and Coxswain John Dar
Wet but home, the Plymouth lifeboat crew on the early morning of February 16: (I to r) Ray Jago, Ian Watson, Cyril Alcock, Keith Rimmer and Coxswain John Dare. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Western Morning News. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Gales and the Variations of the Barometer In the Months of October, November, and December, 1867
By JAMES GLAISHER, Esq., F.R.S.
THE variations, in the reading,of the barometer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, from October 26 to December 6, 1867, are shown in the annexed diagram, together with the directions of...
Category: Articles
The New Eddystone Lighthouse
In former numbers of this journal we published a series of papers on "Lights and Lighthouses," to which an account of this the last of our great outlying light- towers will be an appropriate sequel.
As a preamble...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
South East Division Trawler saved in violent storm THROUGHOUT THURSDAY DECEMBER 26, 1985, Boxing Day, the weather on the east Kent coast had been rapidly deteriorating; by late afternoon winds from the north east were reaching strong gale...
Category: Services
A Life-Boat Story
A dozen of hearts! and a dozen of hands ! I And the courage of death!—'tis a Yorkshire boast; It was all they asked one November noon When a hurricane blew on the Whitby coast.
For a cry came over the wailing sands, And...
Category: Poetry
Juan de la Vega
PENARTH. — A bright flare light was seen in the roadstead at 1 A.M. on the 27th Jannary, during squally weather, the wind blowing from W. and N.W.
The Joseph Denman Life-boat proceeded in the direction of the light, and...