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Elisabeth
Wells, Norfolk.—During the morning of the 19th November, 1937, the coastguard reported a vessel ashore about two and a half miles east of the entrance to Wells harbour. She was the auxiliary ketch Elisabeth, of Hamburg, bound from Hamburg to...
Spurt
Moelfre, Anglesey.—6th December. At 6.20 P.M. a message was received from Point Lynas that the 3,000-ton Norwegian steamer Spurt was in distress in the Moelfre roads. A whole N. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea, and the weather was...
Dangerous Gas on Blazing Fishing Vessel
Tynemouth'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 overboard and been airlifted ashore, but... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Llandudno's D Class Lifeboat 41 Club 1 Makes Her Way Through the Towyn Floods With Lifeboatmen and Firemen Aboard
Llandudno's D class lifeboat 41 Club 1 makes her way through the Towyn floods with lifeboatmen and firemen aboard. (Photo Philip Micheu). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fishing Cobles
Escort duty ON TUESDAY, January 28, 1975, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Bridlington lifeboat at 1130 that a number of fishing cobles were still at sea and the weather was deteriorating.At 1235, high water, William Henry...
Cover Picture
Some years ago Campbell MacCallum took a portrait of the people of Wells lifeboat station.
The cover picture on this journal is a similar portrait taken last autumn by Peter J. R.
Stibbons of Hunstanton... - View image in PDF
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Ann and Catherine
At midnight, on the 25th of July last, the smack, Ann and Catherine, of Barmouth, stranded on the bar off that place, the wind blowing a gale from W. S. W. at the time. At 2 A.M. the Barmouth life- boat, belonging to the National Life-boat...
lolanda
APRIL 23RD. - TORBAY, DEVON. A motor fishing host, returning to Brixham in the morning, reported that the engine of the fishing boat lolanda had broken down in St. Mary’s Bay. A freshening south-east wind was blowing, and there was a rough...
Three New Life-Boats Named
ARBROATH H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, named the new Arbroath life-boat The Duke of Montrose at a ceremony held at the life-boat station in Arbroath harbour on the 21st of May, 1958. Provost D. A. Gardner,...
Category: Inaugurations