Washed off pier A MEMBER of Amble ILB crew, Keith Stuart, was on his way home at about 1715 on Friday August 19, 1977, when he heard a helicopter working in the area off the south pier. Bystanders were shouting that a boy was in the water....
Sinking fishing boat NITON RADIO advised Solent Coastguard at 2031 on Saturday December30, 1978, that the 42ft fishing vessel New Venture reported to be midway between Nab Tower and Hayling Island had sent a message by VHP that she was...
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IN 1890 we had the pleasure of placing before our readers full detailed accounts of the first steam Life-boat ever built.
This vessel was a hydraulic steamboat built for the Institution by Messrs. E. and H. Green, of...
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SWIMMING collars indeed! Who ever, until lately, heard of such a thing as a swimming collar? One has heard of "grinning through a horse-collar," but to swim in a collar seems, at first sight, so great an absurdity that the idea...
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Caught in the path of Storm Abigail, the crew of a broken-down shellfish trawler needed RNLI volunteers to come to their aid – quickly
As the storm passed over them on 12 November 2015, the 12 men onboard trawlers Genesis...
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ABOUT one-fifteen in the morning of 24th October last a message came from the coastguard to the life-boat station at Moelfre, Anglesey, that a vessel was in distress N.N.E. of Point Lynas. A whole gale was blowing from north by east, and a...
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TRIALS ARE AT PRESENT in progress on two different possible answers to the same problem: how best to achieve a stretcher which will float. While flotation is obviously a desirable extra safeguard in any marine situation, there are also many...
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ANOTHER YEAR has come to the end, and a very successful one it was for Shoreline. Membership is well in excess of 97,000, and although we did not reach our target of 100,000 we were not all that far off. I doubt whether we shall be many...
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