This is the scene that greeted the crew of Exmouth’s relief Mersey class lifeboat Fisherman's Friend, responding to a shout on 26 November 2008. The fishing vessel Aleyna had overturned 26 miles south east of the Devon town and her crew...
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Newbiggin, Northumberland. At 10.50 on the morning of the 12th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Amble life-boat was on service searching for the fishing coble Mother's Joy but that she had not managed...
MARCH 2ND. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At 1.55 P.M. a small white mast with a flag was seen about six or seven miles E. N.E. of the life-boat station. It was thought to be a raft with people on board.
A light...
Shortly before noon on the 7th December the coastguard reported that a schooner, anchored about three quarters of a mile from the shore, had parted one of her cables and was driving towards the land. The crew of the Life-boat Eichard and...
EXPENDITURE.
LIFE-BOATS :—• New Life-boats for the following stations :—On account— Aberdeen, Eastbourne, Longhope, Montrose, New Brighton, Pie! (Barrow), Plymouth, Porthdinllaen, Ramsgate, Southwold, Stromness, Wexfacd,...
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Coxswain Richard Eglon, of Whitby, who died on 18th September at the age of eighty-five, had had a long and distinguished career in the life-boat service. He had been an officer of life-boats for thirty-one years. He served as bowman at...
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The steam trawler Alexandra, whilst bound from Iceland to Boulogne with a cargo of fish, ran on to the rocks about three quarters of a mile N.W. of Skinningrove jetty, during a very thick fog on the 13th June. Information of the casualty was...
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 11.55 on the morning of the 15th of August, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat was in difficulties one mile east of Tynemouth North Point. At 12.10 the life-boat...
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At 8.30 on the evening of the 9th of August, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat had gone ashore on the outer reef at Scotston Head, and five minutes later the life-boat Julia Park Barry, of Glasgow,...
• The Pocket Oxford Guide to Sailing Terms has been abridged by Ian Dean- —himself a keen sailor—from the classic work by Peter Kemp, Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. The slim volume, published by Oxford University Press, price...
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