• A new, updated version of Gillian Howie and Gillian Zealand's history of Arbroath's lifeboats May 1982 has been compiled by Alasdair M. Sutherland, himself a crew member. With the aid of photographic illustrations Arbroath Lifeboat...
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Margate, Kent. — At 12.46 in the afternoon of the 19th of December, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a motor launch was drifting four miles to the north-east of the lookout, and at 1.23 came another message that she was now flying a...
Coxswain/Mechanic Hewitt Clark of Lerwick joined the crew in 1965, and was reserve mechanic from 1966 to 1967. He then served as mechanic until his appointment as coxswain/ mechanic in 1979.
Hewitt was awarded a bronze... - View image in PDF
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FOR maximum effectiveness and safety in the covirse of their work life-boats, both conventional and inshore, must have contact with other units involved. They must, therefore, be able to talk to shore stations, aircraft and other craft at...
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WE are desirous of calling the attention of Commissioners of harbours, docks, and piers to the following clauses of an Act of Parliament, relative to the providing of life-boats and the life-preserving apparatus by the undertakers of such...
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On the morning of the 20th March the Rosslare life-boat again went out to the rescue of the crew of the schooner Teazer, of Goole, which had struck on the North Bar. It was blowing a gale from the E.N.E., and there was a heavy sea on at the...
• AH At Sea, a catch of true and tall stories trawled by writer and broadcaster Libby Purves, has been published by Fontana to mark the 160th anniversary of the RNLI, a milestone reached on March 4 this year. Here can be found all the...
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NORTH SUNDERLAND and HOLY ISLAND.
—On the morning of the 27th January, five fishermen put off in a coble from North Snnderland, for the purpose of shooting wild ducks on the Fame Islands.
Two of the men...
CANOE HAD OVERTURNED At 10.15 a.m. on 3ist August, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a passing ship had reported an overturned canoe. There was a choppy sea with a gentle easterly breeze. It was one hour before low...
A Holiday at Skipsea LAST summer a fifteen-year-old school- girl was holidaying at Skipsea, near Bridlington. Her home was at Baildon near Shipley, and she was staying with her parents at Sea Cabin Bungalow, Green Lane, which stood near the...
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