St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly. At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 17th of Decem- ber, 1960, a message was received from the honorary medical adviser that he had to go by air to the mainland to take an expectant mother to Redruth hospital as...
SEPTEMBER 1 0TH. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE, AND PORT PATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.
At 1.10 in the afternoon the coastguard reported to the Girvan lifeboat station that a naval pinnace was flying a distress signal off Ballantrae. The...
St. Helier, Jersey.—At 4.30 in the afternoon of the 8th of August, 1948, a message was received from the har- bour office that a sailing boat appeared to be in difficulties six miles off Gorey, and at 5.15 the motor life-boat Howard D. put...
Appledore and Dfracombe, North Devon - At 8.35 p.m. on 17th July, 1969, the Hartland coastguard told the Appledore life-boat coxswain that the cabin cruiser Sea Sweeper, with two people on board, was in difficulties one mile west of Baggy...
This photograph shows Silloth's Atlantic 21, at speed in the Solway Firth and apparently about to be attacked by a U.F.I. (Unidentified Flying Insect!).
Unbeknown to photographer.
Jimmy Graham, the... - View image in PDF
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Another challenge - another environment - another first. This challenge is to be the first to solo circumnavigate the UK and Ireland by sea kayak. In total it will be over 4,950 miles, taking around 26 weeks to complete. The ambitious... - View image in PDF
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Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—At 7.5 on the morning of the 20th of July, 1952, information was received from the coastguard that a yacht had burned a red flare four to five miles north- north-west of Tol-Pedn-Penwith. The life-boat Susan Ashley was...
South Eastern Division Catamaran in Distress A WELL-REEFED CATAMARAN making heavy weather two-and-a-half miles off St Margaret's, Kent, was seen by the Coastguard at 9.10 a.m. on Sunday, October 21, 1973. Dover lifeboat station was put...
JANUARY 8TH. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX.
At 1.10 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that the Belgian trawler Monte Carlo, of Ostend, appeared to be too close to Langney Point. There was fog and a north wind was...
Marathon lifeboatman Congratulations to Mark Petty- Mayor, crew member of the Southend- on-Sea inshore lifeboat, for taking part in the 1996 London Marathon to raise money for the RNLI.
This was Mark's first marathon,... - View image in PDF
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