Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At six o'clock on the morning of the 14th of September, 1959, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen six miles east-north- east of Woody Bay. At 6.14 the life- boat...
and 17 stations with rocket apparatus only, so that Sweden has a fleet of 26 motor life-boats, and 2 pulling (one with an outboard motor).
Turkey There were no services to British vessels.
There are 4 life...
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No Day Too Long An Hydrographer's Tale by Rear Admiral G. S. Ritchie published by the Pent/and Press at £15.50 ISBN 1 872795 63 3 The chart is such a commonplace item aboard a boat that it is often taken for granted. But spare a...
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Just in case some of your readers might be wondering how I managed to get the 'Pictorial Story of an IRB Service . . .' (THE LIFE-BOAT, September 1969, centre pages), may I assure them that there was nothing rigged about it: my wife...
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Double call-out SHOREHAM COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Newhaven lifeboat at 1634 on Sunday January 22,1984, that a trawler, Suzanna D had broadcast a MAYDAY. She was swamped and sinking two miles south west of Beachy Head and...
Ernest Pavey, who worked for the RNLI for 42 years, first as a travelling mechanic and machinery overseer in the North West, and finally as a machinery examiner at the Boreham Wood depot, was one of the recipients of Maundy Money at the... - View image in PDF
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MONTBOSE.—On the morning of the 10th October, while the tug Storm King was towing the schooner Petrel, of and for Montrose, from Balta Sound, Shetland, the tow line broke, and the schooner went on the " Leads " rocks. A fresh N.E....
On the 4th April, however, it was any- thing but fine weather, and the night was dark and tempestuous. Nevertheless, the ! Hope eventually succeeded in saving the crews of the three vessels and entered I Bideford Harbour in safety, with ...
IN the article "A Life-boat Christmas," in the last issue of the Journal, it should have been recorded among the visits of life-boats to lightvessels, that the Walton and Frinton boat also went out and took Christmas gifts to the...
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Dover, Kent.—16th February. An aeroplane had been reported to have dived into the sea, but it had come down to within a few feet of the sea and had then flown away.—Partly permanent paid crew: Rewards, £l 18s..