RUSSIAN ENCOUNTER News was received at Walnier, Kent, on 7th August, 1971, that an unknown number of survivors from a yacht had been placed on board the East Goodwin lightvessel after having been rescued by a Russian warship flotilla...
Blackpool, Lancashire.—At 10.35 P.M.
on the llth December, 1937, the proprietor of an hotel on the south shore reported to the coxswain that a vessel off the shore, about a mile south of the south pier, was sending up...
AUGUST 2 8TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 10.15 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that a small yacht going north might need help. A strong southsouth- east wind was blowing and there was a heavy swell. At 10.55 the...
Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—About 2.45 on the afternoon of the 18th of November, 1955, a message was received from the Coast Life-Saving Service that thej brother of two men in the Coningbeg lightvessel had died. A request was made for the...
Le Station-by-station lifeboat launches for June and July 1999 Aberdeen Arun: Jul 2andJu)4 D Class: Jul 2 and Jul 12 Aberdovey Atlantic 2 1 : Jun 7. Jun 24. Jun 26 (twice) and Jul 27 Abersoch Atlantic 2 1 : Jun 4 (twice). Jun 6. Jun 18 and...
Category: Services
In Portsmouth dockyard on 23rd June, 1966, the second Oakley 48-foot 6-inch lifeboat was capsized twice for the benefit of the Press and a large unofficial gathering of naval and civilian dockyard personnel. Here she is shown righting and... - View image in PDF
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Cloughey, Donaghadee, and Newcastle, Co. Down, and Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—On the 19th November, 1937, the disabled schooner Invermore, of Dublin, was picked up by the Cloughey and Donaghadee life-boats....
THE work of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION is indubitably not a, romance, but one of hard practical fact. The Institution has nought to do with " Dreamland," but its mission is, from our rugged and storm-beaten shores, to...
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The merry cobbler: Fakenham shoe mender Chris Thomas, who is also a member of the re-formed Fakenham and District branch, dressed his mechanical shoe-mending dummy in lifeboatman's gear to attract attention during the town's flag... - View image in PDF
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The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat...
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