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COVER PICTURE by Dowland Studios Lifeboat weather... A shaft of sunlight highlights the new Arun The Queen Mother during trials on a stormy day in January 1989. The lifeboat is to be stationed atThurso, and was due to sail there in March... - View image in PDF

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A trip to the London International Boat Show 7th - 17th January 1999, is even better if you make a Stakis Hotel your first port of call.

The friendly welcome continues right through...

JAN. 7TH - CLACTON-ON-SEA. AND WALTON AND FRINTON ESSEX. At about 4.38 P.M. the Clacton coastguard telephoned that a barge off Holland Sluice appeared to be in difficulties. Soon afterwards they reported that she was burning flares for help,...

SEPT. 24TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.

A message was received from the coastguard at 8 A.M. that a steamer was sinking through enemy action, three or four miles E. by N; from the look-out. A N.W. breeze was blowing, with a heavy...

OCT. 12TH. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHscene, UMBERLAND. At 5.33 A.M. the coastguard reported a ship ashore on the Goswick Sands.

The weather was wet and cold, with a moderate easterly breeze and a heavy swell.

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NOV. 2 8TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 4.15 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel had been damaged by enemy action about one and a half miles E.N.E. of the Tongue Light-vessel. A light S.W. breeze was blowing and the sea was...