Ramsgate, Walmer, and Dover, Kent.
—At 10.8 in the morning of the 13th of September, 1951, the Ramsgate coastguard telephoned to the Rams- gate life-boat station that an aeroplane, an American Thunderjet fighter, had...
Thanks, but no thanks for Barry Dock! Barry Dock lifeboat crew were faced with an unusual situation on 12 September this year, when one of two survivors they had located refused the offer of a lift to safety on the lifeboat! Within 10...
This two-part article, published earlier this year in Yachting Monthly and reproduced here by kind permission of the editor, Andrew Bray, and the author, takes a look at rescues from a yachtsman's point of view and asks how crews should...
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NOVEMBER 29TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND. A British aeroplane had crashed in the Silloth Channel, but the lifeboat found nothing, and on putting into Silloth learned that the aeroplane had been found, but that the crew had been...
WITH the conclusion of the Procurator Fiscal's enquiry, which was held at Kirkwall on 10th June, 1969, it is possible for the Institution to publish its own findings on the circumstances leading to the loss of the Longhope...
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JULY 17TH. - CLACTON-ON-SEA, AND WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. A message had been received from the coasttake guard that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea between Walton pier and Gunfleet Lighthouse and that a man had come down from it by...
THURSDAY, 14th January, 1904.
Sit EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
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THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Richard Evans of Moelfre. He was appointed coxswain in 1954 after serving as second coxswain from 1939 to 1954 and as bowman from 1930 to 1939. He was awarded the bronze medal for gallantry for the...
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SEPTEMBER 25TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX.
An aeroplane was reported to have come down in the sea off Thorney Island, but the life-boat found nothing. As she approached Chichester harbour, she saw oil on the water, and learnt later...
Busy afternoon for Amble Amble's Waveney class Margaret Graham had a busy afternoon on 14 August, attending three calls in three hours.
She was first launched at 1207 to the fishing boat Nina with ten anglers aboard.<...