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A Fishing Vessel Elate

Date: November 1908

Volume: 20

Issue: 230

At 2.10 P.M. on the 17th July, during a moderate N.W. gale with a heavy ground swell, a fishing vessel named the Elate, belonging to Port St. Mary, was trying to make the inner harbour, and in so doing fouled the breakwater with her jibboom....

Ganges

Date: Winter 1951

Volume: 33

Issue: 357

Newhaven, Sussex.—At 1.23 in the afternoon, on the 13th of January, 1951, the Newhaven Radio station re- ported that the Dutch tug Ganges, tow- ing a barge and a steam hopper from Rotterdam to Southampton, had asked for help. At 1.45...

Cover Picture

Date: Summer 1977

Volume: 45

Issue: 461

After the naming of The Scout by HM The Queen, Hartlepool coxswain, Robert Maiden and crew members are presented to Her Majesty by Lieut.-Commander Harry Teare, divisional inspector of lifeboats (NE), and to HRH The Duke of Kent by Captain... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Swift

Date: December 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 374

Port Erin, Isle of Man.—At 6.42 on the evening of the 23rd of July, 1955, the harbourmaster telephoned that the Cregneish wireless station had received a message from Chicken Rock light- house that a boat was in distress near the lighthouse....

Whites (Farnborough) Ltd

Date: Winter 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 467

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Category: Advertisement

Wave

Date: November 1880

Volume: 11

Issue: 118

SUTTON, LINCOLNSHIRE.—On the 4thJuly the Life-boat Caroline proceeded to the assistance of the yawl Wave, of Goole, which was showing a signal of distress.

On arriving alongside it was found that her foretopmast and...

A Steamer (40)

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

NOVEMBER 6TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.

A steamer had struck a mine, but she had sunk by the time the life-boat arrived.

The life-boat was then asked by a destroyer to search for a boat containing seven of...

Fishing Boats

Date: Spring 1951

Volume: 33

Issue: 358

Sheringham, Norfolk. — During the morning of the 7th of May, 1951, five local fishing boats put out; and as one of them was going back the weather got worse. The sea was also getting stronger and the wind increased. So, as one of the four...

Alpha

Date: November 1912

Volume: 21

Issue: 246

A useful Life- boat service was performed by the Michael Henry Life-boat on the 10th February.

At 10 A.M. information was received that a steam trawler had stranded on the Harbour Bar, and the Life-boat was launched to her...

Spray

Date: December 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 378

Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At midnight on the 9th of July, 1956, the life-boatField Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was launched in a calm sea, with a light breeze blowing, to take two fire service pumps to the auxiliary cutter Spray.

The...