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Tankerton Tower

Date: February 1912

Volume: 21

Issue: 243

During a westerly gale on the 22nd June, the schooner Tankerton Tower, of Faversham, got into a dangerous position near Formby Point. She was bound at the time from Dublin to Liverpool in ballast, and had five men on board.

Egmont

Date: August 1884

Volume: 12

Issue: 133

At midnight on the llth February it was reported that a schooner, which proved to be the Egmont, of and for Cork from Cardiff with a cargo of coal, was riding with only one anchor close to " Holden's Bed." Her crew were said to...

A Plane

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

MAY 29TH. - PEEL, ISLE OF MAN. A competitor in the Manx Air Races had crashed into the sea, but he was picked up by a fishing boat.-Rewards, £7 13s.

Dunkirk Lifeboats Remembered

Date: Spring 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 508

The Sir William Hillary to which Mr Hills refers below was the RNLI'sfirst 'fast' lifeboat. Designed largely for rapid response in the event of an aircraft crash, she was 64ft long and powered by two 375hp petrol engines giving a... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

(Below) St.Catherine's New 17Ft 6In Zodiac Mk Iv D Class Inflatable Lifeboat

Date: Spring 1984

Volume: 49

Issue: 488

(below), St Catherine's new 17ft 6in Zodiac Mk IV D class inflatable lifeboat, drawn by the station's new Land Rover, prepares to launch after her dedication. In the background can be seen the new lifeboathouse officially opened on... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Ahto

Date: June 1932

Volume: 28

Issue: 310

On January 14th the Coastguard reported what appeared to them to be the sudden disappearance of a small yacht off the Skerries Bell Buoy. The time was then 5.35 P.M., and the Motor Life-boat George Shee put out.

A S.W....

Vert Prairial

Date: June 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 376

Penlee, Cornwall.—At seven o'clock on the morning of the 14th of March, 1956, the Tol-Pedn-Penwith coast- guard rang up to say that a trawler had been wrecked at Wireless Point, Porthcurno. At 7.15 the life-boat W. and S. was launched....

Josse

Date: Winter 1992

Volume: 52

Issue: 519

Crew overboard during yacht rescue The Thanks of the Institution on Vellum has been awarded to helmsman Duane Brown of Walmer lifeboat after the rescue of three Belgians from their yacht Josse,aground on the Goodwin Sands, in strong winds...

A Boat Fairy Queen

Date: August 1874

Volume: 09

Issue: 93

During a strong south-easterly gale on the 10th August, the pilots at this place observed a boat, about eight miles to the N.E., with a signal at her mast-head. The Christopher Brown Life-boat proceeded to it, but found that the boat was...

Skipper and Mate

Date: April 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 333

The crew of the barge Gannet, of Gillingham, rescued by the Southend-on-Sea motor life-boat in a gale on 13th December, 1937. (See next page.). - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs