At half an hour after mid- night on the 14th November, in reply to signals of distress shown from the schooner Ellen Beatrice, of Aberystwith, bound from Swansea to Dover, the Life-boat Wolver- hampt&n launched from its station, and...
Penlee: The champagne bottle breaks as the 52ft Arun Mabel Alice was named in Newlyn on July 18. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Andrew Besley. - View image in PDF
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SOS FROM HULL Humber, Yorkshire. At about 4.50 p.m. on 8th October, 1963, the coxswain received a telephone message from the Hull agents of the S.S. Baron Berwick asking if a doctor could be taken to the ship as there was a sick man on board...
DECEMBER 26TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. An Anson aeroplane had been reported overdue, but nothing was found and it was learned that the aeroplane had crashed on the shore. - Rewards, £12..
The most amazing life-boat story of them all? The cottagers just down the road from where the Louisa was nudging her slow way, inch by inch along Mrs Washford's wall, had come out into the road to see what was going on. A hundred yards...
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Dunbar, East Lothian - At 2.25 p.m.
on iQth January, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Leon Laura required assistance one and a half miles north east of Dunbar. The life-boat...
Children's favourite Stormy Stan touched the hearts of these two little girls during a branch collection at South Mimms services on a sunny August weekend. Stan and the Sea Safety roadshow joined volunteers from Potters Bar, Enfield,... - View image in PDF
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Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 11.39 on the night of the 27th of May, 1950, the Walton-on-the-Naze coastguard telephoned that the Sunk Lightvesset had reported what it thought to be a flare about two miles south-south-east of the...
HELP FOR YACHT AFTER TOW-ROPE PARTS St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 2.55 on the afternoon of the 26th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Cergio was in tow of the French trawler Belle Garce thirteen...
Wood was for hundreds of years the traditional boat building material and a well-built wooden craft is still a joy to look at. (Right) The hull of a 37ft din Rather, built of cold moulded wood, starts to take shape. The backbone structure of... - View image in PDF
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