Mike Floyd continues his look at the training of today's lifeboatmen and joins a new Mersey class lifeboat on passage from Poole to her new station There was an air of anticipation, excitement even, when the engine note of our Mersey...
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St. Helier, Jersey. At 6.45 a.m. on 22nd June, 1965, the honorary secretary heard from the harbour office that the S.S. Tryonia was going to the help of a yacht which seemed to be in distress about three and a half miles west of Grosnez...
THE year 1878 will long be remembered by the inhabitants of London as the year in which the passenger steamer Princess Alice was sunk in the Thames by collision with the Bywell Castle, with the loss of more than 600 persons, out of about 850...
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(below left) 'It's broke Mister! Can you fix it?' Roy White carries out some running maintenance on the 'towing tank'. - View image in PDF
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Tugs aground ST ANNE'S COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of St David's lifeboat station at 2020 on Sunday October 18, 1981, that the tug Vernicos Giorgos, with two other tugs in tow, had a rope round her propeller and was...
Two local motor fishing boats, Mizpah and Norse- man, put to sea early on the morning of 1 st December. Later a strong southerly breeze sprang up, reaching gale force in squalls, and a rough sea, with broken water, was running across the...
Workington, Cumberland.—At 10.30 on the morning of the 10th of January, 1956, the Walney Island coastguard rang up to say that the skipper of a fishing boat had come in from sea atWhitehaven and had stated that he had been towing the fishing...
West Division Knockdown JUST AS Lytham-St Anne's lifeboat was being moored after returning from exercise at sea on Saturday afternoon, June 6, 1981, Liverpool Coastguard informed the station honorary secretary that an unconfirmed report...
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