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A Sailboard
Boy helps save windsurfer Eleven-year-old Ryan Gratton was out fishing with his grandfather on 4 August when they spotted a windsurfer in difficulty. From their boat, Ryan's grandfather helped the windsurfer and Ryan radioed Dover...
An Aeroplane (111)
AU G U S T 3 1 S T . - F L A M B O R O U G H , YORKSHIRE. An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but nothing was found.
Later it was learned that the crew of four had already been picked up by another vessel. - Rewards,...
Latch & Batchelor Ltd
STAINLESS STEEL ROPE FOR RIGGING NOMINAL DIAMETER Milli- Inches metres (appro*) STANDING RIGGING RUNNING RIGGING MINIMUM B R E A K I N G LOAD (LBS) 2 2-5 3 4 5 6 7 5/64" 1/8" 5/32" 3/1 6" 1 '4" 9 32" 5,1...
Category: Advertisement
A Small Boat
Sunderland, Co. Durham.-—8th May, 1938. A small boat had got into difficulties, but reached Seaham Harbour unaided.—Rewards, £5 2s. Qd..
An Aeroplane (181)
NOVEMBER 16TH. - NEWQUAY, AND ST.
IVES, CORNWALL. A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, and the Newquay motor life-boat put out. While she was out information was received that another British aeroplane was...
The Mine Sweeper Willett
At 4.45 A.M. on the 5th December informa- tion was received that the Sunk Light- vessel was firing signals for assistance to be sent to a vessel which was on the West Rocks. The crew of the Motor Life-boat James Stevens No. 14 were promptly...
LIFE-BOAT QUIZ
Compiled by Grahame Farr with the help of members of the Life-boat Enthusiasts' Society 1—Which life-boat station is farthest from the shore? 2—Where are old life-boat houses now used as (a) a library, and (b] an aquarium? 3—Which...
Category: Articles
Sergeant Bob Martin
Sergeant Bob Martin – Chelsea Pensioner and fundraiser extraordinare (see the Lifeboat Summer 2006).
Category: Obituaries
Kelpie, of London
On the 28th December this life-boat again went off, in reply to signals of distress from a vessel which was observed to stop in her course near the shoal of the Barber Sand.
On the -life-boat arriving alongside, the vessel...
None (5)
Dover, Kent. — At 5.57 on the evening of the 30th of May, 1955. the Sandgate coastguard telephoned that two boys had been cut off by the tide at Big Fall, South Foreland.' At 6.20 the life-boat E.M.E.D., on temporary duty at the station,...