Captain E. S. Carver, R.D.,R N.R., on the advice of his doctor, retired from the chief inspectorship of life-boats at the end of last year. He had been chief inspector since the beginning of the war, and before that a district inspector for...
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WALMER.—On the 6th Feb., 1897, in response to guns and rockets, the reserve Life-boat temporarily placed on this station was launched at about 3.45 A.M., proceeded to the South Sand Head lightvessel, and ascertained that she had been run...
Shortly before 10 P.M. on the 29th June, the Coast- guard at Caister informed the Coxswain that a vessel was aground on the Barber Sands. The crew were assembled and launched the No. 2 Life-boat Nancy Lucy. On reaching the sands she found...
Building into the millennium Shoreworks manager Howard Richings moves on to western Scotland, travelling from Kippford to Barra IslandHaving boldly gone from Berwick, on the north-east corner of England, we now cross the Final Frontier and...
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Home port of the 44' Waveney Offshore Lifeboat The Scout and Atlantic 21 Inshore Lifeboat Guide Friendship III by Joan Davies BY THE EXPRESS WISH of Her Majesty The Queen, the theme for this, her Silver Jubilee year, is youth and the...
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(Left) Port bow view of 30' self-righting pulling lifeboat built by T. and IV. Forrestt and Son for the US Life Saving Service and now in The Mariners Museum, Newport News, Virginia, USA.
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The boats of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION and all belonging to them are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At 9.35 in the morning of the 5th of December, 1947, the coastguard reported that four fishing boats were at sea, a strong south- south-east breeze was blowing, a heavy sea running, and the wind and sea increasing....
WBXFOBD AND BOSSLAEE BBANCH. diocese The tm£ and c*stle were LXIH. WEXFOED No. 1.—The Ethel Eveleen, 40 feet by 10 feet 6 inches, 12 oars.
LXIV. Ditto No. 2.—The Civil Service No. 1,34 feet by...
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MARCH 2ND. - WALMER, KENT. At 4.35 in the morning the Deal coastguard reported a vessel in distress off South Goodwin Light-vessel. A northerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. At five o’clock, the motor life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil...