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Ilfracombe Life-Boatmen
At the naming ceremony of the Rosabella.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
After Two Bombs
The wreckage of the boathouse in April, 1941, and underneath it the wreckage of the life-boat John Pyemont, which had replaced the Henry Frederick Swan in October, 1939. The building behind the wreckage is the old watchhouse.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mon Ami
OCT. 25TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX.
At 2.45 P.M. the coastguard reported having received a message from a resident of Hollandon- Sea, that a small rowing boat with three men on board appeared to be in difficulties about...
A Dinghy (5)
Selsey, Sussex. At eight o'clock on the evening of the 4th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing dinghy had been reported submerged off Selsey east beach, with two people on...
Jupiter, of Hamburg
On the 4th May, 1872, the Life-boat Wolverhampton, stationed at the Mumbles, proceeded to the assistance of the ketch Jupiter, of Hamburg, which had gone ashore near the harbour during a strong gale from the W. Some of the crew of the Life...
Troll
TOW FOR YACHT WITH NINE ABOARD Holyhead, Anglesey. At 9.30 on the evening of the 13th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was flashing a light off North Stack and appeared in...
Violet Sinclair
Barmouth, Merionethshire - At 7.21 p.m. on 8th July, 1966, a fishing boat was seen firing distress flares two miles off Llangelynin point. The life-boat The Chieftain was launched at 7.34 in a gentle westerly wind and a moderate sea. She...
Ituna
YACHT TOWED WITH EIGHT ABOARD Weymouth, Dorset. At 8.10 on the evening of the 21st July, 1962, the pier master informed the coxswaiu that a yacht was in distress off Ringstead Bay.
A fresh west-south-west wind was blowing...
Dainty (1)
ESCORT FOR YACHT WITH TORN MAINSAIL Plymouth, Devon. At 8.30 on the morning of the 17th August, 1962, the Rame Head coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was a yacht whose sails had carried away two miles east-south-east of...
Ecclefechan
DUNBAR.—While a moderate. E. gale was blowing, accompanied by a heavy sea and thick weather, on the morning of the 23rd February, intelligence was received that a. large vessel, which was subsequently ascertained to be the fourmasted barque...