Above: The old Victoria Cafe - once again sen/ing as North Berwick lifeboat station.. - View image in PDF
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The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger sizes, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
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On the night of 22 June 1988 the fishing vessel Marigold tan on to rocks at Polkirt beach, 500 yards from Mevagissey Harbour and was badly holed. An overnight operation by a local boatbuilder, the coastguards and fire brigade patched the... - View image in PDF
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With a small angling boat rapidly taking on water in the North Sea, it took the combined skills of three lifeboat crews to save the vessel and the eight men onboard
The volunteers on Tynemouth’s all-weather lifeboat were...
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TWO LANDED FROM CAPSIZED RACING YACHT Wicklow, Co. Wicklow. At 2.50 on the afternoon of Saturday the 24th of August, 1963, the coxswain received a telephone message from a member of the public who had seen a red flare being burnt on board a...
At the Grand Summer Ball, Jersey, dancing was in the largest marquee ever raised in the island. From among the many dancers, Mrs Eileen Moore, Jersey guild honorary secretary and ball sub committee chairman, with Cdr Peter Sturdee who... - View image in PDF
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IT will be remembered that during the terrible gales in the winter of 1929 to 1930, great damage was done to the Scottish fishing fleet. On one day, llth November, 1929, it was estimated that the fleet, when fishing off the East Anglian...
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St. Helier, Jersey. At 3.50 on the morning of the 20th of July, 1958, the honorary secretary received a message that a man fishing at Plemont had heard shouts and seen white flares, and that a small boat appeared to be in difficulty close to...
JANUARY 2 4TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. About 2.30 in the afternoon the naval authorities asked, through the coastguard, for the life-boat to go to the help of two landing craft about a mile south of Shoreham. A strong southerly wind was...
Aground in a storm THE NOTORIOUS North Scroby Sands, off the Norfolk coast, near Great Yarmouth, claimed another victim on the night of November 18/19, 1986, when the rig tender Seaforth Conqueror ran aground there in a south-south-westerly...