APRIL 19TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
Early in the morning five fishing boats left to lift their crab pots. A N.E. wind of gale force got up with a rough sea and heavy rain, and two of the boats returned. As the weather grew...
Services for August 1984 will be reported in the spring 1985 journal Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun: July 29 D class inflatable: June 18 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic21: July 13, 28 and 29 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic21: June 23 (twice), July...
Category: Services
The last meeting between the Duke of Kent, President of the KNLIfrom 1936, and the lifeboat service was at Plymouth Guildhall on July 11, 1942, just seven weeks before his death in an air accident.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
THE Life-boat Saturday " Season" for 1904 is now almost over, and having regard to the wave of commercial de- pression which has been sweeping the country, it has been a decidedly success- ful one. When times are bad it needs all...
Category: Articles
ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.—About 8 A.M.
on the 27th February a telephone message was received stating that a steamer was blowing a succession of short blasts from a foghorn and immediately afterwards another message an-ived...
And they're off! These happy toddlers look part in a race at a fun day organised at Endcliffe Park in aid of the City of Sheffield lifeboat appeal. Crowds of more than 5,000 turned up to see, among other things, a junior fancy dress... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Below) Fig. 1: The hull skeleton builds up. Note aft ramp and mahogany filler chocks to raised end box gunwale. - View image in PDF
The after compensating chock gives strength where gunwale will be cut away for steering pan.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two yachts aground BRADWELL COASTGUARD MOBILE was in the vicinity of Stansgate on the afternoon of Friday, May 20, keeping watch over a number of yachts off Osea Island, when, at 1723, a yacht was seen to be heading for the sand spit at the...
Collision A COLLISION IN DENSE FOG between MV Futurity and the motorboat Little Slam some three miles south east of Littlehampton was reported to the honorary secretary of Shoreham Harbour lifeboat station at 1510 on Saturday May 12, 1979....