B.A.S.P was named after the initials of the four donors who funded her. She is an example of an early motor lifeboat but was still fitted with a mast and sails.
Type 45ft Watson Motor Single Screw Lifeboat Built 1924 Length... - View image in PDF
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Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 10 a.m. on 24th June, 1965, the coastguard reported that a cabin cruiser was firing red flares one mile east of Shoreham harbour. The life-boat Dorothy and Philip Constant was launched at 10.7 in a fresh to...
Expenditure in 1943 was £299,125. That was more than in 1942 but much less than in a year of peace. Only one new life-boat could be completed and sent to the coast. She had taken three times the normal time to...
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Eleven student pilots from Wexford Aero Club back home with their Beagle Pup aircraft after a gruelling day's sponsored relay flight round Ireland, with six crew changes. It was a complicated navigation exercise to test crew skills with... - View image in PDF
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Propeller fouled LENA B, a 32ft beam trawler, 2'/2 miles south east of Hastings with her propeller fouled by a fishing net, was reported to the honorary secretary of Hastings lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 0700 on Sunday October 12...
IT is with deep regret that we record the following deaths: January 1987 Cyril Mayo, chairman of Warmley branch since 1974, two years after he first became a member. He was awarded a statuette in 1983.
February 1987 Robert...
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rnolograpn fiy courtesy oltne Evening Argus, Brighton EIUOVS IIS WORK On the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Inshore Rescue Boats Evinrude motors have to work hard.
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Cloughey, Donaghadee, and Newcastle, Co. Down, and Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—On the 19th November, 1937, the disabled schooner Invermore, of Dublin, was picked up by the Cloughey and Donaghadee life-boats....
Wick, Caithness-shire.— Shortly before midday on the 20th March, 1939, the life-boat coxswain reported that several small fishing boats beating in towards the bay were in danger. The weather was squally, with hail showers,and a very strong N...