STRUCK ROCK At 5.40 p.m. on 28th May, 1966, the trawler Welsh Consort struck a rock at the entrance to Castlebay Harbour when leaving. She blew her siren continuously and the life-boat R.A. Colby Cubbin No. 3 was launched at 6...
Naming Ceremonies EASTBOURNE, JULY 3 and ISLAY, JULY 28 Eastbourne IT SEEMED AS IF the whole population of Eastbourne, together with its holiday makers, had assembled round the lifeboat museum on the afternoon of Tuesday July 3. The occasion...
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Explosion at sea AN EXPLOSION, on the night of November 15, 1973, aboard the 300-ton deep-sea trawler Boston Jaguar, 37 miles 020° (T) from Cromer, Norfolk, left the ship without steering gear, with her mate killed and a crew member...
Whitstable’s B class lifeboat Oxford Town & Gown helped save the 1901-built wooden sailing barge Marjorie, which was holed in a collision during a barge race on 9 August. When the lifeboat arrived on scene, Marjorie had already been...
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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...
ONE of the chief difficulties attendant upon life-boats, consists in launching them from an exposed beach. It is rarely, if ever, that a boat can be launched from a carriage direct into the open sea in a gale of wind ; although it is...
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Fig. 5: New sacrificial anodes are fitted to afloat boats each year. The wastage caused by electrolytic action can be seen by comparing new anode with old one just taken off Edian Courtauld: Ji/6 of metal had been eroded in twelve months at... - View image in PDF
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Japan: Line-throwing rocket firing exercise for volunteer crew members of Nippon Suinan Kyusaikai.. - View image in PDF
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Awarded the silver medal for gallantry: Coxswain! Mechanic David Kennett, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.. - View image in PDF
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(Above) A carvel built 18ft launch takes shape for the RNLI, and. - View image in PDF
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