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Rfd Inflatables Ltd
RFD are pioneers in the field of inflatable equipment.
They were the first company to introduce automatic inflation — the first to produce canopied liferafts - the first to receive Government Approval for liferafts on...
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The Replica Longship Dyflin
Pillaging will be delayed slightly...
It is not often that a lifeboat tows a Viking longship, but it does happen! Moelfre's Tyne class lifeboat Robert and Violet is pictured doing just this on 15 July 1990 after...
H.M. Destroyer Erne
APRIL 30TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 10.22 P.M. a message was received from the Fraserburgh coastguard that H.M. Destroyer Erne had been bombed when ten and a half miles from Kinnaird Head, and at 11 P.M. the motor...
The S.S. Alba
APRIL 16TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. A steamer was seen ashore on the North Goodwin Sands at about 7 P.M. and the motor life-boat Prudential was launched at 7.26 P.M. A westerly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea, and at times snow and hail...
Thomas M.
NOVEMBER 24TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 2.38 P.M. a heavy explosion was heard, and shortly afterwards the coastguard reported that vessel had struck a mine and was sinking one and a half miles S.E. from the coastguard...
An Auxiliary Naval Ketch,with a Cutter In Tow
DECEMBER 1 0TH. - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN. At 2.30 in the afternoon the motor life-boat George and Sarah Strachan was taken out for exercise by the district inspector. The sea was choppy. After she had been at sea about half an hour she came...
Slasher, of Liverpool, Ship Bolton Abbey & Schooner Vanguard
On the 10th Jan. the steam-tug Slasher, of Liver- pool, while on her way to that port with the ship Bolton Abbey in tow, fell in, about daybreak, with the schooner Van- guard, of Carnarvon, which had been in collision with a foreign barque,...
Brit
Salcombe, Devon.—At 10.0 on the night of the 6th August, 1952, the Hope Cove coastguard telephoned that a red flare had been seen one mile south-south-east of Bolt Head. At 10.10 the life-boat Samuel and Marie Parkhouse left her moorings,...
Aileena
Selsey, Sussex.—At 10.0 on the morning of the 28th of August, 1951, a life-boat launcher said he had seen a yacht anchored about three miles off Selsey. She was flying a flag at half mast. There was a steamer near her, but it did not go to...
Wheatear and Banshee
Ramsgate, Kent. At 10.8 on the night of the 3rd of August, 1958, the watchman at the east pier informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen near Quern buoy. At 10.23the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out in a slight...