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Clarke Chapman & Co. Ltd

Date: March 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 415

CLARKE CHAPMAN MARINE A U X I L I A R I E S FOR LIFE-BOAT STATIONS This illustrates one of our electrically driven winches as supplied to the Tynemouth Lifeboat Station for hauling up the life-boat.

Many other winches of...

Category: Advertisement

Niki

Date: July 1971

Volume: 42

Issue: 436

When an unknown vessel reported sighting the masts of a sinking ship near the South Varne buoy on 27th February, 1971, the Dungeness life-boat was unable to launch immediately owing to low water and spring tides. The Dover life-boat Faithful...

A Drifter

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

OCT. 26TH. - RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.

A drifter had been reported as flying distress signals, but she got in to the shelter of Douglas Bay unaided. The life-boat was out for nearly five hours in a gale with a heavy sea. -...

Cevic

Date: March 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 337

Portrush, Co. Antrim.—At 12.22 A.M.

on the 27th December, 1938, information was received from the coastguard that a ship was ashore at Greencastle.

A moderate W.N.W. wind was blowing, with heavy squalls of...

Mahelah

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

APRIL 22ND. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.

At 5.20 P.M. the Skeldon Hill coastguard telephoned that a barge half a mile away was flying a signal. The weather had been foggy, with a strong easterly wind blowing and a moderate sea,...

Inshore Lifeboat Services June July and August 1977

Date: Autumn 1977

Volume: 45

Issue: 462

Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire July 16.

Aberdovey, Gwynedd June 5 (twice), 9 (twice), July 3 (3 times), 7, 10, 26, August 4, 17 and 20.

Abersoch, Gwynedd June 5, 10, 16, 30, July 11, 18, 21, August 11, 20, 21 and...

Category: Services

Jean Horsley

Date: Winter 1953

Volume: 33

Issue: 364

Hartlepool, Durham.—At 2.47 early on the morning of the 9th of February, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that a boat off the Palliser Works, north of Hartlepool, was burning flares, and at 3.15 the life-boat The Princess Royal, Civil Service...

A Trawler

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

MARCH 18TH. - GOURDON, KINCARDINESHIRE.

Shortly after seven in the morning the body of a man was found among the rocks near Gourdon. There was a fog, and when it lifted a trawler could be seen.

The...

Mermaid Marine Engines Limited

Date: Summer 1978

Volume: 46

Issue: 465

engines Wriere complete reliability under arduous conditions is essential to human life.the RNLI specify MERMAID marine engines.

MERMAID quality and reliability is also specified by Boatbuilders worldwide who take pride in...

Category: Advertisement

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Date: October 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 327

Torbay, Devon.—19th April. A message, nailed to cork floats and reading "SOS help on Thatcher Rock," was picked up, but a search revealed nothing.—Rewards, £4 13s. 6d..