On the 14th January there was an urgent call from Inisheer, the most southerly of the Aran Isles, for a doctor. A heavy sea was running and a gale was threat- ening. No boat could be found to venture out, so the motor life-boat William....
Sheringham, Norfolk. — 7th April, 1938. A steamer had reported by wireless, through Humber Radio Station, that she had seen an aeroplane fall into the sea in flames near the Dudgeon Light-vessel, but a long search revealed no trace of the...
(Left, top) Liam checks the cover on one of the first Atlantics to come up for sale. (Left, lower) A clutch of Waveneys at the Depot quay. The outer boat.
44-0 / 7, was due to leave Tilbury for New Zealand in March where... - View image in PDF
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HARDY MARINE +44 (0)1692 408700 www.hardymarine.co.uk Buy one, train many Congratulations to all our friends at the RNLI on the delivery of ‘Robert S Ellsmoor’ – their second Hardy Commodore 42 training vessel.
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AT the annual meeting, the Duke of San Lucar la Mayor, the Spanish Charge d'Affaires, announced the awards which the Spanish Life-boat Society had made for the rescue of 23 lives from the Spanish steamer Monte Gurugu in the Bristol...
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Our man in Towcester Despite suffering a stroke some 10 years ago, wheelchair bound Colin Baldry remains as the RNLI's 'man in Towcester'. Colin, pictured here with Mrs Dora Gamble on Towcester flag day last year, does not get... - View image in PDF
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Two calls in gale NEWHAVEN LIFEBOAT, the 47' Watson Kathleen Mary, was called out twice on Thursday, November 4, 1976. During the early evening HM Coastguard had been watching a yacht coming from the west, close inshore. As she turned in...
Dear Editor I read Nick Page's letter regarding inflatable toys [the Lifeboat Summer 2006] with much fellow feeling. Being both a harbour master and an RNLI deputy launching authority I dislike these things with something close to a...
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During a blinding snowstorm with the wind blow- ing a strong northerly gale, the ketch Myrtle, of Yarmouth carrying a crew of three hands was driven ashore near West Hartlepool Harbour, on the 20th February. The ketch was on a voyage from St...
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 7.40 on the evening of the 22nd of July, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was ashore on the West Barrow Sands between a mile and two miles north-west of the Mid Barrow lightvessel....