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A Fishing Vessel

Date: December 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 394

Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumber- land. At 9.20 on the morning of the 20th of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel had reported that she was making water fast and needed help. No precise details...

1945

Date: March 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 23

Life-boats rescued 553 lives in 1945. In the first four months, up to the end of the war, they rescued 223 lives. In the first eight months of peace they rescued 330. That is, they rescued 55 lives a month in the four months of war, and 41 a...

Category: Articles

Foxhound

Date: February 1934

Volume: 29

Issue: 317

On the night of the 18th October the honorary secretary received word from West Angle and St. Ann's Head that rockets were being fired in Mill Bay. A moderate S.S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and visibility was...

Kushi

Date: October 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 335

Hythe, Kent.—At about 5.30 P.M. on Sunday, 1st May, 1938, the Sandgate coastguard reported that a motor cruiser two miles S. by W.|W. from the life-boathouse appeared to be in trouble. The coxswain kept her under observation for some time...

Jacques Colin

Date: March 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 375

Bridlington, Yorkshire.—At 11.15 on the morning of the 2nd of December, 1955, an ex-coxswain of the life-boat heard a wireless distress call from a French trawler in the direction of Skipsea. At 11.55 the life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield...

Luz

Date: May 1912

Volume: 21

Issue: 244

Information was received from the coastguard at 3.30A.M.

on the 23rd December that a vessel in the Roads was burning flares for assist- ance. The crew of the No. 1 Life- boat Eliza Harriet were promptly assembled, and the...

Adex Rumaton

Date: Spring 1995

Volume: 54

Issue: 532

Discover the double benefits of A combination of magnets and copper - Twice the power - twice the benefit Now... for the very first time, Ceba of London brings you the exclusive Rumaton combined copper and magnetic...

Category: Advertisement

Volvo

Date: Winter 1991

Volume: 52

Issue: 515

UFE.

When you open the door of a Volvo 460 Turbo, you'll notice the extra weight of the built-in crash-bar. It's there in all Volvo doors.

Sink back in your seat, secure in the knowledge that you...

Category: Advertisement

Marylda, Ciris and Chinta

Date: December 1953

Volume: 33

Issue: 366

Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 1.10 early on the morning of the 30th of August, 1953, the Foreland coastguard telephoned that the Nab pilot cutter had reported that a yacht needed help three miles north-north-east of Nab Tower. The...

Nicolette

Date: September 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 373

Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 11.15 on the morning of the 6th of May, 1955, the St. Anthony coastguard rang up to call attention to the position of a sailing yacht in Falmouth Bay. He later stated that she might need help as the weather was bad. At...