While a fresh S. breeze was blowing, accompanied by a choppy sea, on the morning of the 12th April, the Coastguard on duty observed a vessel stranded on the East Hoyle Bank. He at once communicated with the Coxswain of the- Life-boat Goard...
Dover, Kent.—23rd March, 1938.
The German naval training ship Albert Leo Schlegeter had collided with a steamer, but a tug had taken her in tow and the steamer had gone on her way.—Partly permanent paid...
(above) Round Tablers and their families aboard theNewhaven HfeboatLouis Marchesi of Round Table which their President, Roderick Burn, handed over to Captain J. B.
Leworthy, a member of the Committee of Management, at the... - View image in PDF
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Again, on the 12th July, two lads, in a small sailing-boat, were driven out to sea during a strong wind from the S.S.W., and being unable to return, they dropped anchor, and tied a cravat on an oar, as a signal to those, on shore, which...
THE FIRST LONGHOPE SERVICE SINCE NIGHT OF TRAGEDY THE Longhope, Orkney, life-boat Hilton Briggs, which was sent to the re-opened station following the disaster on 17th March, 1969, in which the entire life-boat crew lost their lives, made...
COVER PICTURE by Edward Mallinson The third Trent class, Blue Peter VII, pictured off the island of Alderney during crew training before going to her station at Fishguard. She is the first all-weather lifeboat to carry the 'Blue... - View image in PDF
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AUGUST 28TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 4.38 in the afternoon the Foreland coastguard telephoned that a pilot at Sea View had reported a boat being blown off shore in the direction of Horse Sand Fort.
A south-west gale...
• A. F. Mumble's The Rowing Life- Boats of Whitby (Home and Son, Whitby, £1.63—including postage), has been produced with much scholarship and care. Mr Humble, who is acting librarian of the Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society...
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ST. IVES, CORNWALL.—The Life-boat James Stevens No. 10 was launched at 5.15 A.M., on the 5th February, while a strong gale was blowing from N.N.E., and proceeded to the brigantine, Julien Marie, of Auray, coal-laden from Swansea, bound for...
The St Davids lifeboat tows the Wasini to safety. Picture oown. - View image in PDF
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