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Freeway Limited

Date: Spring 1997

Volume: 55

Issue: 540

NEW! The Massed Bands of Her Majesty's Royal Marines at The Mountbatten Festival of Music, 1997 tecorded live at the Royal Albert Hall. "The Uountbatten Festival of Music 1997" is the atest in a long line of musical triumphs by...

Category: Advertisement

(Above) Rother:

Date: Winter 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 479

(above) Rother: Length overall 37ft 6in; beam I l f t 6 i n ; draught 3ft 6in; displacement 13 tons: maximum speed, 8 knots; range at full speed, 150 nautical miles. The Rother, introduced in 1973, is a development of the 37ft Oakley and she... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Jet Skis and Inflatables

Date: Summer 2000

Volume: 57

Issue: 553

Busy day for Rhyl ifeboats hyl lifeboat was the busiest lifeboat station in the UK on 18 June 2000 - responding to no less than ten incidents in ten hours! R Glorious sunshine helped to attract the crowds to Rhyl for the Royal British Legion...

Silver Spray

Date: September 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 373

Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 16th of May, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a man in the crab boat Silver Spray was signalling for help off Zone Point near the entrance to the har- bour. At 12.50 the life-boat...

A Small Rowing Boat

Date: December 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 332

Wicklow.—Early on the afternoon of the 5th September two men, visitors, put off in a small rowing boat. When about two miles east of Wicklow pier they broke an oar and made signals of distress. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing, with a...

Boy Jermyn

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

OCTOBER 20TH. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 11.30 on the night of the 19th the coastguard reported that a steamer in the harbour was making signals of distress. A strong westerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The life-boat crew...

Roma

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

JUNE 11TH. - FLEETWOOD: LANCASHIRE.

At 1.30 P.M. the lighthousekeeper reported that a small motor boat was aground on the east side of the Wyre Channel. A strong N.W. breeze was blowing with a rough sea. Two other motor...

List of Launches

Date: Spring 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 556

Aberdeen ALB ON 1248: Nov 13 (Twice) Abersoch 1LB B-582: Jan 5 Aberystwyth ILB B-704: Dec 10. Feb 17 and Feb 21 Aith ALB ON 1232: Nov 1 ALB ONI 103: Dec 14 Aldehurgh ALB ONI 193: Nov 20 ILBD-520: Nov 20 Amble ALB ON 1176: Jan 29 and Feb 9...

Category: Services

A British Aeroplane (4)

Date: 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1944

OCTOBER 27TH. - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN. At 2.5 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that a British aeroplane had crashed in the sea. The weather was fine, the sea calm. At 2.20 the motor life-boat George and Sarah Strachan was launched...

Night Distress Signals

Date: February 1878

Volume: 10

Issue: 107

' For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ?" UNTIL the year 1873, vast as were the interests at stake, there was no recognised system of night signals to be shown by vessels in distress...

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