In storm force winds and darkness, the yacht Annarchy had engine problems and was steering an erratic course. The Moelfre crew had to manoeuvre the lifeboat close enough to the yacht for Rod Pace to jump aboard and regain control of the...
Mrs Topsy Levan, honorary secretary of Kew branch, clad in oilskins and armed with a loudhailer, collects for the RNLI at the foot of Kew Pier, where countless holiday makers disembark after trips up the Thames. Last summer she raised more... - View image in PDF
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VHP transmitter/receivers are now very compact and can be fitted in boats as small as the RNLI's D class inflatables. This photograph of the first Atlantic 75 rigid inflatable clearly shows the aerial mounted on the mast aft - as high as... - View image in PDF
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Drifting on rocks ST ANN'S COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of St David's lifeboat station at 1138 on Saturday March 11 that MFV 7, on passage from Fishguard to Pembroke, had engine failure west of St David's...
By RITA DAPHNE HARDING (aged 11), The Colville Junior Girls' School, Lonsdale Road, Netting Hill, London, W.ll.
I STOOD watching a strong weatherbeaten tisherman haul baskets of crabs over the side of his boat, on to...
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Category: Services
JULY 3RD. - WESTON-SUPER-MARE, SOMERSET. An aeroplane had crashed in flames in the sea, but only a body was found.
- Rewards, £4 0s. 6d..
SEPTEMBER 10TH. - ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but her crew had got ashore in their rubber dinghy. - Rewards, £7 5s. 6d..
Barmouth, Merionethshire. •—• About half-past ten in the morning of the 29th.
of July, 1949, information was received from the R.A.F. at Valley, Anglesey, and from the Fishguard coastguard that an aeroplane had come down in...
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — On the morning of the 8th of January, 1956, anxiety was felt for the safety of the local fishing boat Pilot Me II, as the weather was worsening. The life-boat crew assembled, but at 6.30 the coast- guard rang...