Life-Boatmen Were Honoured During 1964 rescue craft of the Royal National Life-boat Institution received more service calls than in any year since the foundation of the Institution in 1824. This was reported by Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham...
Category: Meetings
By OSMOND PATTISON HANDFORD ROBB (14), Royal High School, Edinburgh.
Imagine that You have been Shipwrecked, and Rescued by a Life-boat. Describe Your Experiences.
THE sea was turbulent; a thick fog...
Category: Articles
Silver service at Cleethorpes and NumberIt is a rare occasion that Cleethorpes and Number crews work together on shouts. Only 5 miles apart as the crow flies, the two stations couldn't be more different.
Cleethorpes...
The UK Government revealed on 14 July that its proposed cuts to HM Coastguard had been scaled back. It is now intended to close 8 centres rather than 10, to have the remaining 10 centres (Solent, Dover, Aberdeen, Shetland, Stornoway, Belfast...
Category: Articles
XLXIX. RYE.—The Mary Stanford, 34 feet by 7 feet 9 inches, 10 oars.
L. WINCHELSEA.—The Frances Harris, 33 feet by 8 feet 2 inches, 10 oars.
THESE two most interesting towns well deserve the descriptive...
Category: Articles
MC A/I IMC W! THE LATEST IN WEATHER TECHNOLOGY £535-00 STARTING AT JUST Wireless or cabled incVAT The new Vantage Pro weather stations offer forecasting, on-screen graphing for every sensor, and multiple alarm settings. Monitor...
Category: Advertisement
'Well, it was like this. I went to Ted and Mary's Life-boat Tavern at Tenby, Pembrokeshire, and hadn't been in the bar a minute before I saw with my own eyes one of the R.N.L.I.'s super new 48-foot 6-inch boats ahead of me. .... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
St. Ives, Cornwall. At 2.45 p.m. on 29th August, 1965, while the IRB was on patrol off Porthmeor beach during a surf life-saving competition, her crew were told that a swimmer was in difficulties between Crowner Rock and Clodgy Point. The...
FEBRUARY 6TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
A very heavy explosion had been heard five to six miles E.S.E. of Aldeburgh.
The life-boat found a large patch of oil or coal dust and followed it for two miles, but...
by courtesy of Ken Adams The Coastguard look-out at Clacton-on-Sea is perched on top of a Martello Tower.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs