NOVEMBER 7TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. Two fishing cobles of Flamborough, the Doreen May and the Pioneer, were fishing off Flamborough Head. The weather was getting worse, and by eleven in the morning a north-easterly gale was blowing, with...
The first of the 1909 silver medal services at Fraserburgh: the lifeboat Anna Maria Lee is manoeuvered in close to the fishing boat Henry and Elizabeth of Nairn before her six remaining crew are pulled to safety.. - View image in PDF
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Coastguard . . .
LT-CDR TIM FETHERSTON-DILKE, the new 'Chief, talks of the re-organisation taking place within Her Majesty's Coastguard, emphasising that its long-standing traditional relationship with the lifeboat...
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Life-boat 70-002 - Bristol Channel - At 1.35 p.m. on 7th May, 1967, a member of the crew of the life-boat Grace Paterson Ritchie lying at anchor off Ilfracombe saw a red flare at the east end of Ilfracombe bay. There was a moderate westerly...
Stores depot: every kind of spare part from marine engines to nuts and bolts is housed in a warehouse on Poole Quay.. - View image in PDF
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The King and The Life-Boat Service. - View image in PDF
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Staithes and Runswick's Atlantic 21 Lord Brotherton. - View image in PDF
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Inflatable Tube And Rigid Hull Meet. - View image in PDF
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The schooner Welcome Home, of Plymouth, was observed about 7 A.M. on the 19th November running for Hayle in an E.N.E. gale, and when attempting to cross the bar she stranded. The assembly signal for the Life-boat crew was at once fired, and...
St Agnes Senior Helmsman Gavin Forehead was expecting a routine exercise when he launched with his crew on 16 October 2005 but when they returned just over an hour later, they had saved two livesGavin, Helmsman Rory Bushe, Crew Member James...