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A Small Open Boat
At 3.30 P.M. on the 31st October the Coastguard received a message from Broadstairs stating that a small open boat, with one man in her, was out at sea and drifting towards the Goodwin Sands. As a strong northerly breeze was blowing...
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Put Him Down!
Put him down! Warwick ladies' guild committee member, Joan Gill (right) and Central England regional manager, Judith Feeney, have to make do with a dummy lifeboatman as Central Region has no lifeboat stations of its... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Right) a Tyne Hull Which Is Built Upside Down Until the Plating Is Complete Is Turned Over Ready for Decking In Fairey's Yard East Cowes
(Right) A Tyne hull, which is built upside down until the plating is complete, is turned over ready for decking in Fairey's yard, East Cowes. - View image in PDF
photographs by courtesy of David Hillmer. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Open Motor Coble Lily
APRIL 7TH. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE.
At 10.37 A.M. , the coastguard reported that a coble was in difficulties off Ulrome, eight miles south of Bridlington, and that she had put up a sail which had been blown away. The...
Open House
Although visitors are always welcome at its Poole headquarters and depot, the RNLI makes a special effort every two years, throwing the whole site open to visitors for two days and putting on displays and demonstrations to illustrate its...
Category: Articles
A Small Open Pulling Boat
MAY 1ST. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
At about 1.20 P.M. the coastguard reported a small open pulling boat about two and a half miles from the look-out, and the No. 1 motor life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched at 1.30 P.M. A...
Four Inshore Rescue Boats Leaving the Cowes Repair Centre for Delivery to Coastal Stations.
Four inshore rescue boats leaving the Cowes Repair Centre for delivery to coastal stations.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Newcastle, CO. Down
NEWCASTLE, CO. DOWN On the 21st January, 1942, the Newcastle life-boat rescued thirty-nine of the crew of the S.S. Browning, of Liverpool.
COXSWAIN PATRICK MURPHY was awarded the gold medal.
SECOND...
Category: Medals
Review. "The Story of the Sea: The Sea, Its History and Romance." By Frank C. Bowen (Halton and Truscott Smith. Vol. I. 15s. Net)
MB. BOWEN has performed a public ser- vice in writing this book, which sets forth in a straightforward, and at times almost prosaic, way the romantic history of the sea and its ships. We use the word " prosaic " advisedly, for what...
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