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High speed tow foR trimaran At first glance there doesn't seem anything unusual about the top photo aboard a fast-moving trimaran (right) - but the second shot shows that her nineknot speed is down to an Atlantic on the other end of the...
A Walrus Amphibious Aeroplane
DECEMBER 13TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At two in the afternoon the Hoylake coastguard reported an aeroplane down in the River Mersey off Gladstone Dock.
The weather was foggy, with a light southeast wind. The sea was...
The Life-Boat Station
THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the house for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 240 Life-boat Stations...
Category: Articles
Victorian photographer’s art of glass
In a nod to his craft’s Victorian heritage, one Newcastle-based photographer is visiting every lifeboat station with his 110-year-old camera and glass plate technology.
Using a former NHS ambulance as a mobile darkroom,...
Category: Articles
H.M. Trawler Sheldon
MARCH 7TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
At 4.45 A.M.. the coastguard reported signals from a vessel to the N.E. by E., and the motor life-boat K.B.M. was launched at 6.30 A.M.
A light southerly wind was blowing...
Remura
AUGUST 27TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 11.30 P.M. a message was received from the resident naval officer that a vessel eight miles from Kinnaird Head required help. A fresh W.N.W. wind was blowing, and the sea was choppy. At 11.40 P.M...
Lifeboat Services (1)
Aberdeen, Grampian 54ft Arun ON1050: Jun 13, Jul 7, 18,27and 28 Relief D class: Jun 13, Jul 18, 28 and 31 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: Jun 25, Jul 4, 5 (twice), 9 and 10 Aldeburgh, Suffolk 12m Mersey ON 1193: Jul 26 and 30 D class: Jul 30...
Category: Services
Record of the Branches: 1925—1926. The 20 Branches With the Highest Collection
The 2ft Branches with WE publish below a, table showing the leading Branches with their contributions.
All of them were among the first twenty last year except Salisbury and District, Margate and Worthing, which take the...
Category: Donations
The Loughs of Berwick-On-Tweed
Chairman of the Berwick-on-Tweed Life-boat Station THERE has been a life-boat station at Berwick-on-Tweed for 118 years, and for the last thirty-four of those years the coxswain has been a Lough. A Lough is coxswain today, four of the...
Category: Articles
The South Rock Lightvessel
Cloughey, and Donaghadee, Co. Down.— At three o'clock in the morning of the 31st of January, 1950, the Tara coast- guard telephoned the Cloughey life- boat authorities that the South Rock lightvessel had fired a white rocket. At 3.15 he...