Books First of the flood By Fred Normandale Published by Bottom End Publishing ISBN 0954368606 Price £11.75 paperback Now Lifeboat Operations Manager at Scarborough, Fred Normandale grew up as part of the fishing community in the...
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Out of the blue: the Prime Minister paid a visit to Porlhcawl lifeboat station when she was in South Wales last June. I he crew presented her with a plat/lie and while she was being shown their lf ft I) class inflatable she tried her hand at... - View image in PDF
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Long night at sea in poor visibility Alderney South West Division Alderney's Waveney class lifeboatLoww Marches! of Round Table spent seven hours at sea on the night of 8/9 July attending four separate calls in poor visibility, which was...
'We've been building boats here for 110 years now, and before that we were sailors and fishermen. Always in Arklow.
It was a very small town devoted, at that time, solely to seafaring. Nothing...
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LIFE-BOAT TAKES TWO BOATS IN TOW Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 5.54 on the evening of the llth September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Pertinence of Rochester had taken the cabin cruiser Istar,...
Margate, Kent. At 12.36 on the after- noon of the llth June, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized off Birching- ton and that a motor boat had gone to her help. The Margate Yacht Club had been...
(Above, left) Mrs Antonia Wallace Heaton, honorary secretary of Kensington branch, with some of her enthusiastic Royal Navy helpers at the Ideal Home Exhibition, Olympia, last spring. During the exhibition Navy crews collected £207.98... - View image in PDF
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A NEW inn at Caister, Norfolk, is to be named "Never Turn Back." This name commemorates a disaster and one of the most memorable sayings in the history of the Life-boat Service.
The disaster occurred on the 13th...
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The Cruising Association Handbook, Revised Edition 1971. (The Cruising Association, 490 pp, £6).
• This new edition covers the waters of Britain and Ireland and continental Europe from Kiel to Gibraltar. The coverage...
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CARDIGAN.—On the 3rd May, the crew, consisting of two men, of the smack Christiana, of Cardigan, were safely landed by the Life-boat Lizzie and Charles Leigh Clare, their vessel having stranded on the West side of Cardigan bar, in a moderate...