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Falcon

Date: March 1968

Volume: 41

Issue: 423

Barrow, Lancashire - At 5 p.m. on 24th September, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Falcon appeared to be in difficulty at the south end of Walney.

The IRB was launched to investigate at...

A Rowing Boat (2)

Date: December 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 410

WAVING AN OAR Wicklow. At 3.20 p.m. on 25th July, 1964, while the life-boat Glencoe, Glasgow, on temporary duty at Wicklow, was returning to her station from a flag day at Greystones, a small rowing boat was seen drifting about three miles...

Khaki

Date: Spring 1951

Volume: 33

Issue: 358

Ramsgate, Kent. — At 1.0 on the afternoon of the 16th of May, 1951, the life-boat shore attendant told the coast- guard that a boat in Pegwell Bay was making a signal. She had apparently anchored near the breakers. The coast- guard passed...

Fishing Boats (1)

Date: December 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 352

Gourdon, Kincardineshire.—-About noon on the 9th of November, 1949, a strong south-easterly gale arose, and conditions at the harbour entrance became so bad that the danger signal was hoisted. All the fishing boats were at sea, so the...

A Spitfire's Dinghy

Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

MARCH 2 3 RD. - NEWCASTLE, CO. DOWN. At 3.45 P .M. information was received that an aeroplane had crashed, and the motor life-boat L. P. and St. Helen was launched at 4.5 P.M. A moderate easterly wind was blowing, with a choppy sea.

Barrus

Date: Summer 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 501

Mariner doesn't just promise reliability.

It proves it! If you're considering buying an outboard, whatever the size, you'll have noticed that almost evenmanufacturer promises greater reliability as an important...

Category: Advertisement

Ephrussi

Date: November 1892

Volume: 15

Issue: 166

HARWICH AND ALDEBURGH.—Signals having been made by the light-vessels, the Springwell Life-boat stationed at Harwich and the Aldeburgh Life-boat at Aldeburgh were launched at 8 A.M. on the 5th June, and proceeded to the Shipwash Sands where...

Captain Guy D. Fanshawe, R.N.

Date: September 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 401

Captain Guy Fanshawe, a member of the Committee of Management for thirty-seven years, died on the 19th June, 1962, at the age of eighty.

A son of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur Fanshawe, Captain Fanshawe himself had a...

Category: Obituaries

Pilot Me II

Date: April 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 349

Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 8th of January, 1949, the local fishing boat Pilot Me II was at sea.

The wind increased rapidly until it was blowing strongly from the north-west, with a heavy sea breaking on the...

Robina

Date: March 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 371

Cromarty.—At four o'clock on the morning of the 20th of October, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat had run ashore off Arder- sier and needed help. At 5.10 the life-boat James Macfee put out. The sea was rough, a gale...