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Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

Launches 22. Lives rescued 17.

MAY 4TH.. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. Early in the morning , information was received from the coastguard that signals had been seen seven to eight miles N.N.W. of Kinnaird Head, and at...

Category: Services

Undine

Date: December 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 386

Fowey, Cornwall. At 10.15 on the night of the 20th of July, 1958, the Polruan coastguard informed the hon- orary secretary that a yacht had enginetrouble near the entrance to Fowey harbour. Seven minutes later the life- boat Deneys Reitz put...

Some Ways of Raising Money

Date: Summer 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 481

Witham and District branch, Essex, held its 1982 house to house collection in July. When the box of one of its supporters, Mr B. Tebbutt of Coggershall, was opened it was found to contain £75.30; that amount was made up on one £10...

Category: Articles

Lifeboat Services

Date: Summer 1980

Volume: 47

Issue: 473

Eastern Division Radio ship aground WHILE HER CREW were still on board after returning from a rough weather exercise on Wednesday March 19, Sheerness lifeboat received a VHP call at 1753 from Thames Coastguard telling them that the radio...

Category: Services

the Finnish Coaster Inio

Date: Summer 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 469

Coaster on fire A TELEPHONE CALL from Belfast Pilot Station to HM Coastguard at 1300 on Tuesday April 10 reported a fire aboard the Finnish coaster Inio of Helsinki about a mile and a half north east of Mew Island. A firefighting tug,...

News

Date: Summer 2005

Volume: 60

Issue: 573

Landmark ruling - is it a ship?The personal watercraft (PWC), often known by the trade name of jetski, is an increasingly popular mode of water transport. Partly resembling a motorbike, a PWC is ridden in a similar way and comes with the...

Category: Articles

"Saved at Last," A Tale of the Ramsgate Life-Boat

Date: January 1869

Volume: 07

Issue: 71

CHAP, I.—LIFE-BOAT WEATHER AND LIFE- BOAT WORK 

Do we not often find, in the winter's even-ing, that our warm rooms seem more cosy, and the flames lap more brightly and closely round the half-consumed log, as a...

Category: Articles

Seamen and Their Employers

Date: July 1856

Volume: 02

Issue: 21

MANY of our readers will have learned by the newspapers that for some time past discontent has existed amongst our merchant seamen, chiefly on the ground of their being liable to imprisonment for re- fusing, after signing articles, to...

Category: Articles

Ardency

Date: Spring 1993

Volume: 53

Issue: 524

Eleven men and fishing vessel saved In winds gusting to 90 knotsA difficult service in winds up to almost 90 knots earned coxswain / mechanic Hewitt Clark of the Lerwick lifeboat a Bronze Medal, recognising his leadership, seamanship and...

Mr. William Potter, Late Assistant Surveyor of Life-Boats

Date: November 1925

Volume: 26

Issue: 285

Mr. William Potter, at one time Assistant Surveyor of Life-boats, died on 4th May last, at the age of ninety- four. The son of a dockyard shipwright, he was born in 1831, was apprenticed as a shipwright at Woolwich. Dockyard, and was later...

Category: Obituaries