Dungeness, Kent - At 7.13 a.m. on 27th June, 1966, a vessel was seen in distress off Denge Marsh. The life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched at 7.25 in a gale force west south westerly wind and a rough sea. It was one hour after high water....
SEA-SAFETY EQUIPMENT We hold stocks of all the flares and distress signals now compulsory for yachts.
Also lifebuoys, safety belts, kapok cushions, bells, whistles fire-extinguishers, first-aid cases and a complete range Of...
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Intrepid yachtsman and survivor, Tony Bullimore who hit the headlines in January when he was rescued by the Australian Navy after spending five days in the Southern Ocean in his overturned yacht, signs up to Offshore at the Birmingham Boat... - View image in PDF
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FOR THE PRESERVATION OP LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Otmerte.— Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824....
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APRIL 26TH. - ARRANMORE, CO. DONEGAL.
An aeroplane had been reported to be in difficulties, but she reached her base.- Rewards, £5 15s. 6d..
NOVEMBER 29TH. - KILLYBEGS, CO. DONEGAL. A report had been received that a Flying Fortress aeroplane had come down as she was short of fuel, but she reached her base. - Rewards, £6 13s..
Mr. Douglas Newall, a water bailiff employed by the Avon and Dorset River Board, and Major Oliver Kite, a well-known fisherman, tied some specimen dry flies as used on the chalk streams of southern England. The case of flies was auctioned at...
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Boat Show '88 The organisers of this year's London Boat Show at Earls Court in January generously provided a stand next to the RNLI, for a display paying their own tribute to Grace Darling in the 150th anniversary year of the rescue...
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He's spent 26 years living on the UK's best-known street- but, this father and lifeboat station volunteer is as much about water as he is soap
You've been on...
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ASHORE IN A THICK FOG North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 7.20 on the morning of the 15th of August, 1947, the Seahouses coast- guard reported that a tug was ashore on Bush Rock, and that three women and two boys had been taken off by...