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Above Loading the Rnli's Mercedes

Date: Summer 1991

Volume: 52

Issue: 517

Above. Loading the RNLI's Mercedes road train'. Driver George Dadson demonstrates how an Atlantic 21 can be loaded single-handed with the hydraulic crane.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The S.S. Napier

Date: August 1882

Volume: 11

Issue: 125

On the 8th March a steamer was observed ashore on the Hasborough Sand at 3 P.M. during a fresh S.W. wind. The Husband Life-boat went to her assistance, and found that she was the s.s. Napier, of Shields, coal laden. The Life-boat remained by...

Honor

Date: August 1887

Volume: 13

Issue: 145

TENBY, SOUTH WALES. — The ketch Honor, of and from Cardiff, for St. David's with coal, showed signals of distress while riding at anchor in the roadstead, daring a very heavy gale from the S.W., on the 8th December. The Anne Collin...

Danube

Date: November 1900

Volume: 17

Issue: 198

BROADSTAIRS.—At 4.45 A.M. on the 29th May, the Life-boat Francet Forbes Barton was launched and proceeded to the brig Danube, of Whitby, coal laden from Shields for Dover, which was stranded on the N. Goodwin Sands. A N.N.W. wind was blowing...

Breeze

Date: November 1892

Volume: 15

Issue: 166

FRASERBURGH.—The schooner Breeze, of and from Sunderland, bound for Dingwall with a cargo of coal, was observed to be in danger in Fraserburgh bay while a N.W. gale was blowing accompanied by a heavy sea on the 3rd February. The Life-boat...

John

Date: November 1897

Volume: 16

Issue: 186

APPLEDORE, DEVON. — The Life-boat Robert and Catherine was launched at 7.45 P.M. on the 2nd March, and rescued the crew of three men from the ketch John, of and for Bideford, from Lydney with coal, which was totally wrecked near the bar buoy...

Myjigsaw,

Date: Summer 2004

Volume: 59

Issue: 569

PERSONAL JIGSAW PUZZLES! NEWSPAPER FRONTPAGE JIGSAWS * A unique 400-piece jigsaw puzzle featuring the front page of either The London Times or The New York Times newspapers on a date of your choice.

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Category: Advertisement

The Life-Boats of the United Kingdom

Date: February 1891

Volume: 14

Issue: 159

LXXI. APPLEDORE No. 1.— Temporary Boat, 31 feet by 7J feet, 10 oars.

LXXII. APPLEDORE No. 2.— Jane Hannah MacDanald, 34 feet by 7J feet, 10 oars.

JLXXIJI. BRAUNTON.— Robert and Catherine, 34 feet by 8...

Category: Articles

A Sailing Boat (1)

Date: October 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 339

Shoreham Harbour, and Worthing, Sussex.

—On the afternoon of the 30th May, 1939, a sailing boat, with a crew of two, father and son, capsized about two miles off Goring. A moderate N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate...

Cuban

Date: September 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 362

Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. — At 11.25 on the night of the 14th of April, 1952, the Kingston-on-Sea coastguard telephoned that the Brighton police had reported an auxiliary yacht appar- ently in distress, half a mile off shore and a quarter of...