Barrow, Lancashire.—At 9.43 on the night of the 4th of February, 1957,/the Walney coastguard telephoned that the trawler Dean Swift had wirelessed that the steam trawler Alcmaria, of Lowestoft, with a crew of ten, needed help seven miles...
Lythatn-St. Anne's, Lancashire, and New Brighton, Cheshire - At sevenminutes past midnight on I5th October, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain of the Lytham-St. Anne's life-boat that a fishing boat which left Crossens at 10...
It was a calm September afternoon for a yacht and her crew - until sudden engine trouble combined with a turning tide and a change in the weatherAs the yacht Classic Wave passed between the Isles of Kerrera and Bach off Oban, Argyll, her...
REFLOATING A TRAWLER Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At 6.20 in the morning of the 2nd of September, 1947, the coastguard reported a trawler ashore south of Rattray Head, with a bad list to port. The motor life-boat Julia Park Barry, of Glasgow,...
For services to maritime safety, the following have been awarded the MBE in HM The Queen’s New Year Honours:
Mr Roy Barker, Vice-Chairman, Zetland museum; Mrs Jean Frost, Manager, Rhyl lifeboat souvenir shop; Mr Aran...
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November Mrs Kathleen Booker, founder member and chairman of North Ferriby ladies lifeboat guild from 1969 to 1976 and 1979 to 1986.
She was awarded the Silver badge in 1986..
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TOWED TO LOWESTOFT Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 11.30 a.m. on 24th August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a converted life-boat, Osprey, was burning red flares about one mile east-north-east of the lookout.
(Top) 12-009 indicates a 12m long lifeboat (and therefore a Mersey), the leading zero after the dash indicates aluminium or steel (aluminium in the case of Merseysi and the W shows that she is the ninth of the class to be built.. - View image in PDF
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