At 12.20 A.M. on 3rd February, during a very thick fog, word was received that a vessel was making signals of distress, and the Motor Life-boat H. C. J. was launched. The Hull trawler Arragonite, with a crew of fifteen on board, was found on...
FOOD TO MAROONED SHEPHERDS Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 12.30 in the afternoon of the 28th of April, 1947, word was received from the relatives of two shepherds, marooned on Mingalay Island by the bad weather, that the men's food...
The motor life-boat Lady Rothes was launched at 5.15 P.M. on the 9th February, as a telephone message had been received from the coastguard that the local fishing boat Boy Bob had gone out early that day to haul her lines off Gardenstown,...
C&vJte Ckapt MARINE A U X I LI AR IES FOR LIFE-BOAT STATIONS This illustrates one of our electrically driven winches as supplied to the Tynemouth Life- boat Station for haul- ing up the life-boat Many other winches of similar design...
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Burton-on-Trent branch's annual bonfire and firework party in September was roaring success. For the grand draw there were 30 prizes, the main ones being 75, 50 and 25 gallons of petrol. By buying a ticket you also gained admission the... - View image in PDF
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SELSEY.—On the 18th October, signals of distress having been observed, the Lifeboat Four Sisters was launched, and proceeded to the Royal Mail steamer Elbe, which had gone ashore on the Puller Bank during a strong E. wind and hazy weather....
RAMSGATE AND NORTH DEAL.—At 4.20 A.M., on the 18th May, during a strong breeze from the W.S.W., a screw-steamer was seen ashore on the North Sand Head, with signals of distress flying; and about the same time signal guns were fired from the...
Padstow, Cornwall.—At 5.5 on the evening of the 8th of December, 1957, the Trevose Head coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Dutch vessel Tubo was in difficulties twenty miles west of Lundy and that her cargo of grain was shifting...
COXSWAIN W. J. HARVEY of Newhaven, who died on the 27th March, 1962, had been a member of the Newhaven crew for twenty-two years. He was appointed coxswain in 1948 and retired in 1961. Coxswain Harvey, who was an employee of British Railways...
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Lasting the night During the night of 2 July, a lone yachtsman faced force 10 winds and 10-11m waves, 40 miles off the coast of Donegal. The experienced sailor harnessed himself to the yacht as it capsized repeatedly. In the early hours of...