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Brooke Marine
Brooke Marine Limited ESTABLISHED 1874 SHIPBUILDERS ENGINEERS AND CONSULTING NAVAL ARCHITECTS TypeSOftSelf-Righting Length overall 50'0" Beam 14' 6" Displacement 23.5 tons Fuel Capacity 400 imp. gallons Twin General Motors...
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The Old Wells Lifeboat Royal Silver Jubilee 1910-1935 Taking Local Raf Pilots Far a Trip In March 1940 By Courtesy of Planet News Ltd
The old Wells lifeboat Royal Silver Jubilee 1910-1935 taking local RAF pilots far a trip in March 1940. - View image in PDF
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Category: Photographs
Pearl, Ellen Harrison, Ford Fisher and Isabella
At about 5 P.M. on the llth November, during a northerly gale, signals of distress were seen from the schooner Pearl, of Chester, which was bound from Con- nah's Quay to Dublin with a cargo of fire-clay. The Life-boat Charles and Eliza...
Annual Awards 1975
The Maud Smith Bequest for the outstanding act of lifesaving in 1975 has been awarded to Coxswain/Mechanic David Kennett of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, for the rescue on September 14 of the crew of five of the yacht Chayka of Ardgour. Coxswain...
Category: Awards
The Plymouth Fishing Boat Farsund
Engine Trouble AN anticipatory message to the honorary secretary of the Plymouth lifeboat station at 7.56 p.m. on March 14 that the Plymouth fishing boat Farsund was overdue from a fishing trip to the Eddystone lighthouse area led to an...
A Sailing Boat
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At noon on the 23rd of September, 1956, the Dun- dee harbour police reported that a small sailing boat with two men on board was aground on Naughton sand- bank to the west of Tay Bridge. At 12.35 the life-boat Mono,...
The Motor Keel Boat Lead Us
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At noon on the 29th of October, 1956, a message was received that the motor keel boat Lead Us. of Whitby, was approaching Whitby harbour in very bad weather.
Later a message was received that because...
Hilda II, Rachel, Betty Sheader, Rosemary and Easter Morn
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — On the morning of the 25th of October, 1954, the weather worsened while four local fishing cobles were at sea, and at 11.15 the life-boat E.C.J.R. was launched in a flooding tide. The sea was heavy, and a fresh...
Roomer
The Mumbles, Glamorgan. At 1.36 on the afternoon of the 12th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small open boat with two occupants was flying dis- tress signals a mile and a half-mile south of Mumbles Head...
A Sailing Dinghy
Capsize AFTER CAPSIZING several times offLligwy Beach on Sunday, July 18, the crew of a sailing dinghy were finally unable to right their boat and were drifting seawards.
HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of...