Life-boat 40-001 at Sheerness, Kent - At 5.35 a.m. on 26th May, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor boat was aground off Stoke Saltings, west of the Isle of Grain. At 5.45 the life-boat slipped her moorings in a...
Moelfre, Anglesey - At 1.25 p.m. on 24th May, 1970, the coastguard reported that a sailing dinghy was rapidly drifting out to sea about four miles south east of the coastguard lookout. As the IRB was already at sea assisting a capsized yacht...
HELICOPTER COVER THE Department of Trade and Industry has placed a contract with Bristow Helicopters Ltd.
for the provision of a Whirlwind Series III helicopter for SAR work. The helicopter, which is based at Mansion, Kent,...
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Small trawler sinks SHETLAND COASTGUARD received a mayday call at 0248 on Wednesday January 16, from the fishing vessel Brighter Morn saying that she had run aground on The Ord, a headland ten miles south east of Lerwick; she was holed and...
Six-year-old Stuart Tarvet of St Monans was so keen to help at Anstruther's Lifeboat Day Gala that he dressed up as a collecting box, and collected £20! The Gala attracted over 5,000 people and the firing of a maroon started the... - View image in PDF
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News and Views The latest news from and about the RNLI Lifeboat Services 8 Rescues from around the country including a Silver Medal service Looking to the Future 14 Andrew Freemantle, RNLI Director, reports on the outcome of the 'Vision...
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'Currie explores the enormity of the beautiful and the placidness of the wild.
Within this dichotomy he engages with the horizon as a stablising force to which the viewer steers a path - an imaginary line between air... - View image in PDF
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APRIL 17TH. - DOUGLAS, AND RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. At 5 P.M.. a message was received at Ramsey from the coastguard that an aeroplane had sighted a vessel showing distress signals about five miles to the southeast of Ramsey, and at 5.40 the...
NOVEMBER 24TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 10.15 In the morning the naval authorities asked that the life-boat should be launched to go to the help of a vessel 15 miles east of Gorleston.
The vessel had been...
APRIL 10TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
About 3.30 in the morning the local motor fishing boat Provider went out to haul crab pots. She was the only boat to leave as the weather was threatening. By nine o’clock the conditions at...