Four calls SHOEBURYNESS COASTGUARD sighted a fishing boat off West Shoebury Beacon exhibiting a distress signal at 1550 on Monday, June 6, 1977. The auto-klaxon to Southend-on-Sea ILB boathouse was sounded and the duty crew prepared to...
The yacht Poppy ashore at Barmston, nr, Bridlington, on 26th May, 1969. The Bridlington IRB is in the foreground.. - View image in PDF
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(2)—Life-boat going to rescue of yacht on the Pye sands, off the Naze, Walton, April, 1971.. - View image in PDF
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This photograph was taken by the coxswain, Harold Hayles (see page 499). - View image in PDF
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Yarmouth's Arun class Joy and John Wade is dwarfed by the Royal Yacht as the lifeboat escorts Britannia through Her Majesty The Queen Mother's review of yachts in the Solent.. - View image in PDF
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Willy de Roos' yacht Williwawa Faraday Base, Antarctica in 1983. During her passage, she was tested to the limit, breaking through solid ice up to 18 inches thick, passing a Japanese boat that had been frozen in the previous season.... - View image in PDF
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Jez Fanstone, Lymington lifeboatman, races around the world in September as helmsman/trimmer aboard Lawne Smith's yacht, Silk Cut.. - View image in PDF
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Andrew McDonald (right) hands over his painting to commemorate the rescue of the yacht Whisky Mac to Steve Shaw, coxswain of the Alderney lifeboat, in the Training Centre at the RNLI's Poole headquarters.. - View image in PDF
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OCTOBER 26TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 7.45 in the evening the naval control asked the life-boat coxswain to assemble his crew, as a vessel, somewhere in the east anchorage, was sending out a wireless SOS, and a tug and a fire-float...
This photograph, taken by Mechanic Roger Legge aboard The Lizard lifeboat, shows the horrendous conditions during the service to the yacht Heptarchy. The yacht is 56ft long, a very substantial size, yet she is dwarfed by the breaking... - View image in PDF
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