AUGUST 2ND. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. About five in the evening information was received from the coastguard that a motor boat appeared to be in difficulties off Greanhead. A south-east wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor...
NOVEMBER 15TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
Early in the afternoon the crew had assembled at the boathouse during an air raid alert. The weather was clear, the sea smooth. and a southerly wind was blowing.
A tug was...
Contents N C*™, » Penlee: the loss of Solomon Browne and her crew, December 19, 1981 40 XL VIII Lifeboat Services 43 4 /9 CBor VHF? The Coastguard's view 51 The Lifeboat Enthusiasts' Society, by John G. Francis 52 ™E™OFATHOLL...
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THE Twenty-seventh Annual Meeting of this Institution was held on the 18th June last, at the United Service Institution, Whitehall Yard, Admiral the EARL of SHREWSBURY and TALBOT, C.B., in the unavoidable absence of the DUKE of MARLBOBOUGH,...
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CONTENTS Notes of the Quarter by the Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306 Annual Meeting of the R.N.L.I 308 Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324 Sea Cities of the Future by Arthur Gaunt . . ...
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At 3.40 p.m. on I5th June, 1967, news was received that a red flare had been fired from a yacht east north east of Dover harbour. The life-boat Southern Africa slipped her moorings at 3.59 in a gale force wind and a rough sea. It was two...
Dangerous gas on blazing fishing vesselTynemouth's Arun class lifeboat George and Olive Turner was called to the aid of the fishing vessel Kalisto which caught fire on 15 September 1990.
The two crew had jumped...
Arklow, Co. Wicklow. At 11.44 on the morning of the 6th of August, 1960, the honorary secretary learnt from the Wicklow life-boat station that a dinghy had been seen to capsize off Mizen Head. The life-boat Inbhear Mor was launched at 11.51...
Arklow, Co. Wicklowl—At 7.25 on the evening of the 7th of January, 1957, flares were seen south of the pier, and as the local motor fishing vessel Sparkling Wave was overdue, the life- boat Inbhear Mor was launched at 7.45. There was a rough...
Arklow, Co. Wicklow. — At nine o'clock on the night of the 9th of De- cember, 1948, it was reported that a fishing boat was burning flares to the north-east, and the motor life-boat Inbhear Mor was launched at 9.10 in a southerly...