St Helier: (right) The crew of the 44ft Waveney lifeboat Thomas James King for the service on September 3, 1983, to the French yacht Cythara: (I to r) Crew Members William Hibbs and John Gray, Coxswain Michael Berry, who was awarded a bar to... - View image in PDF
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On the morning of the 3rd December, the life-boat at this place put off, and rendered assistance to the brig Wild £ose, of Brixham, which was observed to be in a dismantled state off Cromer during stormy weather. When the life-boat...
On the 4th Feb.
the Cahore Life-boat Sir George Bowles, in answer to signals of distress shown from the barque Edwin Basset, of Sunderland, proceeded through a heavy sea and strong breeze to that vessel, from which, she...
Kingstown, Co. Dublin.—On the morning of the 2nd June a Coast Life- Saving Service Inspector telephoned that a yacht was in danger off Greystones harbour. She was the Vixen, of Dublin, bound, with her owner on board, for Wicklow. The wind...
(See Diagrams on next page.} The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat. Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
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A FEW days after the British Isles have been visited by one of the most destructive storms on record, it may not be inappro- priate to call attention to the last issue of the Wreck Register. Its pages clearly show that, along with the...
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The record breakers: on Sunday, June 14, 1987, in Dun Laoghaire Harbour, Eire, 329 sailing boats formed the shape of a sunflower beating the previous world record of 192 boats to moor alongside one another - a feat since ratified by the... - View image in PDF
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The Courtown life-boat was also launched on the 14th August, and rendered valuable assistance to "the schooner Annie Jane, of Kuncorn, which was stranded in the road- stead off Courtown, during a heavy gale from the S.S.E., and had...
The Dvff life-boat at Great Yar- mouth was the means of taking the smack Plowman, of Yarmouth, and her craw of 7 men safely into Lowestoft Harbour.
'A one-eyed, cantankerous and troublesome fellow'1: thus, leaning back in his chair, pipe in hand and smiling happily, does John Chapman describe himself.
But the smile belies the words, for it is the smile of a man...
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