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Stina

Date: Autumn 1984

Volume: 49

Issue: 490

Harwich: At 0630 on the morning of Friday June 8, 1984, Harwich's 44ft Waveney class lifeboat, John Fison, slipped her moorings to go to the aid of the 107ft schooner, Stina. Returning to Maldon from Amsterdam with nine people on board,...

Daring innovation

Date: Winter 2008

Volume: 61

Issue: 586

To his friends and colleagues, David Stogdon appeared to live entirely without fear yet he was a survivor of at least two near-death experiences. In 1940, during the Second World War, the destroyer Brazen sank underneath the young naval...

Category: Articles

Misty Blue

Date: September 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 413

ON THE SANDS At 5.45 a.m. on i3th June, 1965, the coastguard reported that an auxiliary.* yacht Misty Blue was ashore on the South East Girdler sands and listing 45°. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. ji) was launched at 6...

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Date: March 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 391

Galway Bay. At 10.30 on the morn- ing of the 10th of December, 1959, the local doctor asked the honorary secre- tary if the life-boat could take a patient, who urgently needed hospital treatment, from Inisheer to Rossaveal pier on the...

Net Profit

Date: Winter 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 547

Hilti Industries of West Bromwich supported two of their managers, Martin Parker and Jim Coombes (who is also a member of the Stourbridge branch) by sponsoring them in a 24- hour deep sea fish to raise funds for Aberdovey lifeboat..View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Frank and William Gates

Date: December 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 406

RESERVE LIFE-BOAT TOWED TO BANGOR Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 2.10 on the morning of Monday the 8th of July, 1963, the Penmor coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the reserve life-boat Frank and William Gates, on passage from Hoylake...

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Date: Summer 1978

Volume: 46

Issue: 465

Washed off pier A MEMBER of Amble ILB crew, Keith Stuart, was on his way home at about 1715 on Friday August 19, 1977, when he heard a helicopter working in the area off the south pier. Bystanders were shouting that a boy was in the water....

Page & Moy

Date: Summer 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 557

Cruise 2002 from#49 Page©3 Moy's Cruise 2002 brochure is hot off the press. There are more sailings than ever before, a greater range of destinations, and an additional cruise ship. This expanded programme is our response to the...

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Karfinn

Date: Spring 1974

Volume: 43

Issue: 448

Yacht dragging anchor A YACHT AT ANCHOR but in difficulties in heavy seas off Three Cliffs Bay, Gower, was seen by Mumbles Coastguard and reported to the Mumbles honorary secretary at 1350 on December 19, 1973.

Maroons were...

Coxswain Robert Cross

Date: September 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 409

Coxswain Robert Cross, who had the remarkable distinction of twice winning the gold medal for gallantry, died at the age of 88 on I4th June, 1964. He was former coxswain of the Humber life-boat.

He joined the life-boat crew...

Category: Obituaries