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Bottom Right: a Lone Brighton Crew Member
Bottom right: A lone Brighton crew member wades thigh deep through flood water in an Uckfield car park. - View image in PDF
Pictures D Steve Edwards. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Irene and Brighter Hope
Bridlington, Yorkshire. — On her re- turn from the service to the John Watt, the life-boat remained in the harbour and was not returned to her house as the weather was getting worse and there were fishing boats still at sea.' At about 11...
Head Protection (Continued from Page 265)
Head Protection (continued from page 265) including wind tunnel work; as a result an RNLI designed wrap around visor (see photograph, page 265) was found to offer the best combination of desirable optical properties and protection. NRDC has...
Category: Articles
A Motor Yacht (1)
Long tow in difficult conditions for Skegness and Humber lifeboats Skegness and Humber lifeboats were both involved in a long service when conditions became too severe for a classic, 1920s-built motor yacht on a delivery passage from Great...
A Danish Vessel
OCT. 30TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
A ship had been reported on fire, but a later message stated that the survivors of a Danish vessel, believed to have been sunk by enemy action, had been picked up by a Finnish vessel. -...
A Merchant Ship
JUNE 7TH. - ARRANMORE, CO. DONEGAL.
A merchant ship had been reported mined and torpedoed and sinking rapidly, but other vessels had gone to her help and the life-boat found that she was not needed.
While...
A Sailing Boat
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. At 11.59 on the night of the 9th of May, 1959, the honorary secretary was informed that a sailing boat with one man on board, which had last been seen off the west pier earlier that day, had not returned to...
A Navigation Barge
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire.—At 1.10 on the afternoon of the 9th of December, 1957, the police passed on to the coxswain a message from the navigation barge moored off Lytham that one of the watchmen had fallen and broken several ribs....
A Fishing Vessel
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 11.45 a.m. on ist August, 1965, the police told the bowman of the life-boat that a fishing vessel was in difficulties in the Rock Channel. At 12.10 p.m. the life-boat Norman B. Corlett proceeded in a strong...
A Boat (2)
Dover, Kent.—At 1.12 on the aftefc noon of the 19th of May, 1957, the Sandgate coastguard reported that the South Goodwin lightvessel hadreported a boat drifting three quarters of a mile north-north-west of the lightvessel. At 1.30 the...