Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 6.50 a.m. on loth November, 1965, the local trawler Jamaica was reported aground on the sandbank off Lowestoft harbour. She had sent out a 'Mayday' call. The life-boat Frederick Edward Crick went out at 7.5 in...
St. Marys, Scilly Islands - At 9.43 a.m. on 21st October, 1968, the honorary secretary learnt that the captain of the tanker Oscilla was in a coma and had to be brought ashore.
The life-boat Guy and Clare Hunter, with a...
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 9.55 P.M.
on the 6th April the coastguard reported that a steamer was ashore threequartersthreequarters of a mile west of St. Catherine's Point. She was the Italian Luigi Accame, of Genoa,...
Crabber swamped in Force 12 windsCoxswain/Mechanic Malcolm MacDonald of Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, has been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal for a service in which the Stornoway lifeboat rescued two men from a crabber which was...
The steel-hulled 48-foot 6-inch Oakley Mark III life-boat which is now at Ross- Lire Harbour, County Wexford. The R.N.L.I, is fully satisfied that steel hulls are in every way as satisfactory as wooden hulls, and at present nine steel... - View image in PDF
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The remarkable Bose' Wave' radio/CD. What did we do with a radio called "perfect" by Monitoring Times? Improve it, of course. Only this time, we added a CD player so you can enjoy sparkling clarity and deep lows whether you...
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Amble, Northumberland. At 11.5 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1959, the honorary secretary was in- formed that the local coble Emulate was overdue from fishing. It was almost high water when, at 11.15, the life-boat Millie Walton...
AT the annual meeting of the Committee of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, on the 12th ultimo, presided over by Mr. C. G. TURNER, Controller-General of la- land Revenue, it was reported by Mr.
CHARLES DIBDIN, the Hon....
Category: Meetings
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 8th of June, 1958, a man who had been watching a cabin cruiser rolling appar- ently out of control one mile south-west of Birnbeck Island told the police that red...
At 3 P.H. on the 3rd of October, a large barque was seen ashore an the West Gunfleet Sands, and with the aid of a powerful telescope a signal of distress was made out. The crew of the Albert Edward Life-boat were at once summoned, and the...