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Treat for Derek:
Treat for Derek: A Dundee boy handed over £16.50 lifeboat and was rewarded with every schoolboy's dream—the chance to join the crew of a lifeboat for the morning. Derek Arthur, aged 12, a pupil at Morgan Academy, has been collecting... - View image in PDF
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A Small Boat
Selsey, Sussex.—At about 2.35 P.M.
on the 8th September, 1938, the coastguard reported that a small boat with two men on board had been blown to sea from Bracklesham Bay. A moderate N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate...
Yacht Alethea II
At 8.10 P.M. on the 30th August the coast- guard at Totland telephoned that a small yacht was burning red flares near Elbow Buoy. A fresh S.S.W.
gale was blowing, with a rough sea.
The motor life-boat...
Tanga
Aith, Shetlands.—About 8.0 on the night of the 4th of February, 1951, the Lerwick harbour-master reported that the M.V. Tanga, of Rotterdam, had wirelessed that she was seeking shelter north-west of Shetland. She asked for a pilot to be sent...
Rudderman
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—About 1.30 early on the morning of the 17th of Novem- ber, 1952, the tanker Rudderman, of London, wirelessed that her chief engineer had a badly poisoned arm and asked for a boat to land him. The weather was too bad for a...
Right - the Great Gale: the Rescue of the Crew of the Venscapen Off Aldeburgh.
Right - The great gale: the rescue of the crew of the Venscapen off Aldeburgh.. - View image in PDF
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Mozambique 2000, our volunteer crew members returning home onboard a transport plane
Category: Photographs
The Sailing Boat Mudlark
Dunbar, East Lothian. At two o'clock on the morning of the 9th of Nov- ember, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the police at Edinburgh had reported the sailing boat Mudlark, with three young men on board, missing...
Zephyr
CAHORE, Co. WEXFORD.—At about 11 o'clock on the morning of the 5th February, during a strong gale of wind from the S., 'and a heavy sea, signals of distress were shown by the Blackwater Lightship. The John Brooke Life^boat was...
M.B.E. for Scottish Honorary Secretary.
In the Birthday Honours Mr. George Norrie Craighead was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for his work as honorary secretary of the life-boat station at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. He is now serving in the R.A.F., and his wife...
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