100 years ago The summer 1906 issue of the Journal featured an old sea dogliterally - in a report on the Clacton lifeboat, which went to the aid of a wrecked schooner Renner. The schooner's captain had been reluctant to leave his beloved...
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FOUR RESCUED FROM SAILING DINGHY Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 8.25 on the morning of Sunday the 25th August, 1963, the coastguard told the assistant honorary secretary that the s.s. Baltic Sun had reported a small boat in difficulties near...
WHEN THE NUCLEAR submarine HMS Spartan sailed from Barrow-in-Furness last February she had to navigate an exact course out into Morecambe Bay.
A Decca trisponder chain of four 'slave' stations was set up from which...
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The colourful 'Magic Roundabout' float, entered by the Dreel Tavern, taking part in Anstrutner lifeboat station's annual gala. Photo William F. Flett. - View image in PDF
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SEPTEMBER 29TH. - LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. At 11.45 in the morning the life-boat coxswain, while on the pier at Lytham, saw a sailing yacht coming up the river with her mast and sail overboard. A strong easterly wind was blowing, with a...
From an engraving by J. H. Kernot of a drawing by W. Daniel], R.A., which appeared in The English Annual for 1837..
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The new life-boat house at Southend-on-Sea. - View image in PDF
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The Life-boat appears again after an absence of just seven years. Its last number was dated April, 1940. In that month Germany invaded Denmark and Norway. At the end of the next month the British Expeditionary Fotce was brought off from the...
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SICK MAN ON A LIGHT-VESSEL Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 11.47 in the morning of January 6th, 1947, a message was received through the coastguard from the Trinity House superintendent, that a keeper aboard the...
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 10.40 on the morning of the 12th August, 1961, the Inspector of Irish Lights told the honorary secretary that there was a sick man on board the Barrell's lightvessel who needed to be landed. As no...