OCTOBER
Launches 107. Lives rescued 107.
OCT. 3RD. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX, At about 4 P.M. the coastguard reported that a motor yacht, lying about two miles S.W. by S. of Walton Pier, was flying...
Category: Services
A Twelve Hours' Service in a Whole Gale.
AT 8.25 in the evening of 13th January a wireless message was received by the Coastguard at Portpatrick, Wigtown- shire, that a vessel was showing signals of distress off the...
Category: Services
Six times one: John Spivey of Iver, Bucks, was wearing his Shoreline sweater recently on the day he scored a hole in one during a golf tournament. It was, unbelievably, the sixth hole in one of his golfing career and one thing that pleased... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
DOCTOR'S BOLD JUMP MR. D. j. REEVES, the staff coxswain of the Clovelly, North Devon, life-boat Charles H.
Barrett (Civil Service No. 35), a 70-foot steel boat, was told by Hartland Coastguard on 7th November, 1971,...
Aberdeen's 52Ft Arun Bp Forties On Exercise The Lifeboat Plays A Vital Role In The Pattern of Search and Rescue Operating In The Area Photograph Courtesy Jim Fer. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
— Shortly after 10 A.M. on the 9th October, during a thick fog, information was received that a large steamer was ashore near the Cross Sand Light vessel. The No. I Life-boat was manned and proceeded in tow of a tug to the Cross Sand, where...
Mr Neil Cohu's scale model of the Sir William Arnold takes to the water alongside her full-size namesake. Photo Brian Green. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston: The coaster Sea Rhine, her cargo shifted, founders. Her mate had been taken off by the 44' Waveney lifeboat Khami.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
and girls 152. The prize for the best essay has now been won nine times by girls and seven times by boys (a boy and a girl tying for it in 1933).
The Awards.
Alice Chambers will receive a copy of...
Category: Articles
Bunk holiday fund raising activities raised £757 for the New Brighton lifeboat station. Patrons and staff of the Travellers Rest public house and Reflections on Marine Promenade, New Brighton, had an added treat when the inshore... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs