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A Rowing Boat

Date: September 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 417

Tynemouth, Northumberland - At 11.55 a.m. on 2Oth March, 1966, a small rowing boat with two people on board was reported in difficulties with a broken oar one mile east of Tynemouth. At 11.59 the IRB launched in a fresh gusting to strong...

A Fishing Dinghy

Date: March 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 395

Walmer, Kent. At 4.23 on the after- noon of the 25th of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that two men in a fishing dinghy off the Goodwin Fork buoy were un- able to make headway and were drifting northwards on...

Two Pilot Boats

Date: September 1932

Volume: 28

Issue: 311

— Just before nightfall on 9th April two pilot boats had been seen pulling out to sea in a moderate S.W. gale with a rough sea and heavy rain. After dark the wind increased and anxiety was felt for their safety, so it was decided to launch...

Nirvana

Date: October 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 335

Dover, Kent.-—At about 1.40 P.M. on the 5th June, 1938, the Sandgate coastguard reported that a yacht had been dismasted half a mile S.S.W. of the Admiralty Pier. A S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat Sir William...

Membership News

Date: Autumn 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 510

Governors ... Shoreline... Storm Force.. Apologies! You may have been one of several members who experienced strange happenings which coincided with the delivery of your Autumn journal, and unreserved apologies are due to all...

Category: Articles

Coxswain Ron Cannon

Date: Spring 1988

Volume: 50

Issue: 504

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Category: Photographs

Scarcity

Date: September 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 362

Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 7.46 in the morning of the 29th of March, 1952, the coastguard telephoned a wireless message from the motor vessel Scarcity, of London, that her rudder was not working. She was ten miles north- east-by-east of...

Dorothy Watson

Date: November 1889

Volume: 14

Issue: 154

WHITBURN, Co. DURHAM.—While the schooner Dorothy Watson,of North Shields, was being towed by a steam-tug in company with another vessel in a S.E. wind and a strong ground swell and surf on the 10th July, she was caught by the breakers and...

A Fishing Boat (2)

Date: March 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 371

Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 22nd of December, 1954, a message was received from Passage East that a small fishing boat was in distress between Duncannon and Broom Head.

At 12.38 the...

Margaritta

Date: February 1877

Volume: 10

Issue: 103

NEWCASTLE, Co. DOWN.—On the evening of the 26th December a vessel was reported to be ashore in Dundrum Bay.

A very severe gale was raging at the time.

The Life-boat Reigati was promptly launched, and...