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Photograph by courtesy c/ t EI1JOVS ITS WORK On the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Inshore Rescue Boats Evinrude motors have to work hard.
Have to be ready for action all the time, reliable, powerful. And they always...
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A Small Boat
FEBRUARY 3RD. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE. A small boat had been reported drifting, but she returned without help, although she had lost her rudder and had to be steered by an oar. Flashes had also been reported, but nothing could be found. -...
South Star
SAW DISTRESS SIGNAL Hastings, Sussex. At 1.35 p.m. on 2nd August, 1964, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a fishing vessel two miles south of Rye harbour appeared to be flying a distress signal. There was a smooth sea with a light...
(Above) Staithes Lifeboat Station Renamed Staithes and Runswick Was Re-Opened When An Atlantic 21 Ilb Named Lord Brotherton After a Former Lord Mayor of Leeds
(Above) Staithes lifeboat station, renamed Staithes and Runswick, was re-opened when an Atlantic 21 ILB named Lord Brotherton after a former Lord Mayor of Leeds was dedicated by the Reverend R. W.
Barnacle on June 17. The... - View image in PDF
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MEDICAL AID At 9.48 a.m. on 26th January, 1966, the local ferryman informed the honorary secretary that the resident doctor on the island of Jura requested assistance in conveying a sick patient from the Feolin Pier to Port...
Picturesque Postcard
Readers may be interested in this postcard photograph of Douglas lifeboat. It is one of several that came into the possession of my wife, Manx by birth, from her immediate family.
Although the lifeboat pictures are not... - View image in PDF
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Temple Queen
Standing into danger A MOTOR CRUISER, Temple Queen, unsure of her position in a dangerous area just north of the entrance to Strangford Lough was reported to Portaferry lifeboat station by Belfast Coastguard at1900 on Sunday May 17. It was a...
Treasure
NOVEMBER 2ND. - AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 3.45 P.M. the life-boat Frederick and Emma went out to search for the local fishing coble Treasure, which was overdue. A S.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. She found her two...
Two Liberator Aeroplanes
APRIL 27TH. - MARGATE, KENT. A Liberator aeroplane had crashed at Westgate, but was found to be high and dry. Another had struck the cliff and blown up and two men had baled out, but they were saved by another boat. - Rewards, £8...
DECK MACHINERY
PROBLEM: The kit onboard a fishing vessel is expensive, and many crews ‘make do’, mend, or replace their broken machinery with kit that’s not always in line with modern safety standards. On top of that, crew training isn’t always as...
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