Knockdown THE COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of Flamborough lifeboat station on Monday January 23, 1984, that three Bridlington cobles, Serene, Eva Ann and Challenge, had been caught in worsening weather north of...
Oa the 3rd October this Life-boat put off, during a fresh breeze from the N."W., and brought safely ashore from Puma Island 6 persons belonging to the barque Queen of the Fleet, bound from Carnarvon to Liverpool, which had stranded on...
Round Britain Windsurf Tim Batstone is planning to windsurf round the entire 2,000 mile coastline of Britain in 1984, sailing in a clockwise direction starting and finishing at Tower Bridge. His aims include being the first person to achieve...
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Hartlepool, Durham.—At 1.20 early on the morning of the 16th of May, 1953, the Teesmouth life-boat station telephoned to say that the S.S. Indian Exporter, of Calcutta, had asked for a boat to land a sick seaman. The Teesmouth life-boat was...
Developments for 1931.
THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition has now been held for ten years. Started in 1918, it was held in that year and the two following years. In 1921,1922 and 1923 no...
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OCTOBER 17TH. - CROMER, AND SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. Ten men had baled out from an American Fortress aeroplane, but no trace of them was found, although aeroplanes and other vessels joined in the search. - Rewards : Cromer, £9 3s. 6d. ; and...
Some of the 31 yachts, including seven French boats, which took part in an Old Gaffers rally in Guernsey last August, racing for the Thomas Bucktrout Trophy; (I. to r.) Little Apple, Undine, Skipjack, the winner on handicap, Providence and... - View image in PDF
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26 April: New Brighton Having already towed 11 fishermen ashore after they suffered propeller problems, New Brighton lifeboat crew launched in search of five sailors in trouble aboard a yacht. They found it in...
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At their Army Air Day 1973 last July at their base in Middle Wallop, Hampshire, the Army Air Corps raised more than £2,000 for the RNLI. The money is to be used at the inshore lifeboat station, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. In appreciation... - View image in PDF
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FEBRUARY 20TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At five in the evening the life-boat coxswain received a message from the piermaster that a barge with all her sails blown away was driving towards the pier. A westnorth- west gale was blowing,...