DROGHEDA.—Shortly after midnight of the 25th September, the brigantine Maxim of St. John's, N.B., bound from Liverpool to St. John's, went ashore two miles north of Drogheda Bar. It was blowing hard at the time from E.S.E., with a...
Calshot: (I. to r.) Crew Members John Street, Christopher Smith and Peter King with the inflatable boarding boat in which they rescued three men from Ashlett Creek on the night of January 29. Winds were gale force 8 gusting to severe gale... - View image in PDF
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One of the attractions of Yeovil and district branch's stand at Yeovil Festival of Transport was a radio controlled model Waveney lifeboat built by John King, chairman of the branch. Visitors to the show were invited to sink a saucer... - View image in PDF
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Eric Tevison, a medical student of Wanstead, and Jennifer Jackson of Chigwell cycled by tandem from John O''Groats to Lands End to raise funds for the RNLI in 'The Year of the Lifeboat'.
Despite high winds,... - View image in PDF
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Family rescued AT 2125 ON SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1987, Hartland Coastguard informed Clovelly lifeboat's Staff Coxswain Roger Smith that the 29ft yacht Moon Dragon required immediate assistance two miles west of Hartland...
A Yokel's Fair organised last July by customers of the Black Horse, Byworth, Petworth— licensee John Waldy—raised t450 for the RNLl. Held in the grounds of the inn and Roland Sailer's adjoining field, the programme included a... - View image in PDF
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Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 20th of Sep- tember, 1953, the life-boat motor mechanic noticed that the sailing dinghy Joan, with two men and a boy on board, had capsized a hundred yards north-east of the...
Broken rudder THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Moelfre lifeboat station was informed by Holyhead Coastguard at 0845 on Sunday September 21, 1980, that the yacht July Morn had reported that she was in difficulties, her rudder broken, 100 yards off...
THEY CAME FROM FRANCE, the TartS of Dungeness. They were Huguenots and it was in the days before religious toleration. So when persecution became too great they took to their boats, being fishing people, and sailed across the Channel to...
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