ON the 20th of January, 1954, the fishing yawl Poseidon, of Rothesay, left North Shields to fish off Eyemouth.
Early on the morning of the 22nd of January the crew of four found they could not start the engines. They were...
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AT 1.8 on the afternoon of the 7th March, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Cloughey life-boat station in County Down, Mr.
S. C. B. Bryans, that the Dutch coaster Frida Blokzijl of 270 tons was...
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Walkers saved from submerged rockThe skilled actions, in difficult conditions, of helmsman Ronnie Davies, 43, of the Borth lifeboat, saved the lives of two walkers, trapped on a sea-battered rock beneath Borth Head.
At 1920...
ONE cannot help being struck by the fact that some Station Branches find it comparatively easy to raise a substantial sum annually for the support of the Branch, while other places, with perhaps a much larger and wealthier population, are...
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The village of Salcombe stands on the west side of the Salcombe Haven, u miles from Dartmouth, and years ago this little Devon port was noted for its trading schooners. The schooners like the clippers of Joseph Conrad's day have gone,...
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a s p o t t e r ' s g u i d e Why are there so many different designs of lifeboat when the purpose of every lifeboat is so similar-the saving of life at sea? Surely, one might think, all lifeboats are designed to weather the worst of...
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The Grace Darling appeal Arabella and Martha Dancy, pupils at Putney High School, Lytton House, help to organise and took part in a Great Teddy Bear Contest in order to raise money for the appeal. The school hall was filled with 200 teddy...
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Abigail revisited Readers of the Winter 2003/04 edition of the Lifeboat may remember a letter from Alan Jones recounting his airlift from the yacht Abigail with a suspected heart attack. He wrote with some embarrassment at eventually being...
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DURING March life-boats went out on service 52 times and rescued 48 lives.
TO THE HELP OF BARGES IN THE THAMES Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.10 in the morning of the 1st of March, 1949, the look-out at Warden Point reported...
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