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Mermaid Marine Engines Ltd THAMES MARINA THAMES DITTON SURREY Telephone: 01-3986802 Apart from the MERMAID Type 595-TP TURBO-PLUS Marine Diesel Engines being installed in the new WAVENEY Class R.N.L.I.

44ft Steel Lifeboats,...

. . . and farewell to the 35ft 6in Liverpool class lifeboat, a class which has served the RNLI, both as a pulling and sailing lifeboat and then as a motor lifeboat, since the mid 1800s. Grace Darling (below), built in 1954, the last of her... - View image in PDF

The 100-year-old Dutch clipper De Tukker ran aground on a sandbank at the entrance to Amble Harbour, after a tide miscalculation. Amble’s D class Mildred Holcroft crew passed a tow rope from the...

An article on the Padstow Station, which last year celebrated its Centenary, appeared in the Life-boat for last November, and particulars were given of the Medals which had been won by Padstow Life-boatmen. Several Medals have to be added to...

Out-of-control casualty stopped by deliberately fouling propeller Wick lifeboat was involved in an unusual, hazardous and tragic service on 15/16 May 1993 when a helicopter spotted a vessel going round in circles at full power some 14 miles...

The crew of St Peter Port, Guernsey, 52ft Arun class lifeboat Sir William Arnold who, on December 13, 1981, in winds gusting to hurricane force rescued 29 people from the Ecuadorian motor vessel Bonita (see page 77). It was a service for... - View image in PDF

son unite Clacton lifeboat crew were sorry to say goodbye to crewman and mechanic Dave Carvey as he reached the inshore lifeboat retirement age of 45.

However, there was some comfort for them in the arrival of another of... - View image in PDF

WHAT is that sound that cracks the air, that rip in the quivering night ? What is that flash in the scurrying clouds, that shiver of living light ? What is that clatter of hurrying feet, and why do the women run Unkempt, bareheaded, and...