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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
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 288 Life-boat Stations...
Category: Articles
The Caister Disaster Pension Fund
Ix the issue of The Life-boat for last September an article was published on the pension fund which was formed to provide for the forty-two dependants of the nine life-boatmen who lost their lives when the Caister No. 2 life-boat was wrecked...
Category: Articles
George J. Goulandris
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. — At 6.49 A.M. on the 15th January, 1938, the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station at Nell's Point reported an S O S from the Greek steamer George J. Goulandris, of Andros, off Nash Point. She carried a crew of...