RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—The schooner Pausillipo, of Ramsey, while on a voyage from Whitehaven with coals, was caught in a gale off Ramsey, and after losing her mainboom, and having her mainsail split, went ashore, in a leaky state, to leeward...
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Geoff Holt was a teenage sailor with vast potential when an accident changed his life. But his love of the sea and spirit of adventure have no bounds
There were no lifeguards on duty to warn...
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Naming and dedication Ceremonies - Wells-Next-The-Sea- Mersey Class Doris M Mann of Ampthill It was obvious as dawn broke on a cloudless and sunny summer's day on 17 July that everyone at Wells-next-the-Sea had pulled out all the stops...
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On the 14th September the Life-boat Dunleary was launched at 2.23 P.M. during a very strong S.S.W. gale to the assistance of two trawlers which were in difficulties in Dublin Bay. One vessel was named the Industry and the other the...
APRIL 14TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. At 6 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a trawler would arrive shortly, with injured men on board to be landed, and at 6.50 P.M. two appeared, H.M. Trawlers Madden and Tamora. A moderate N.W....
IT is the peaceful Sabbath-tide ; The sacred words have scarcely died That asked a guardian angel's hand For wand'rers over sea and land; Across the dancing waters bright A gallant vessel greets the sight, With every sunlit canvas...
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The Filey IRB crew—an IRB station was established there in 1966—consists of a bank manager, a cafe proprietor and a joiner. When this photograph as taken the IRB and the local life-boat had returned from the successful rescue of two youths... - View image in PDF
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1924: (right) On London's RNLI centenary flag day, the Duke and Duchess of York, touring collection depots, talk to Captain Lawson Smith, in diving kit, outside the Mansion House.. - View image in PDF
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CAISTER, NORFOLK,—About 9 o'clock on the evening of Sunday, the 1st October last, during a strong easterly breeze, a brig struck on the Barber Sands, the sea immediately breaking over her. This being observed from the shore, the Caister...
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Words: Anna Burn. Photos: The Bedford Sixth Form, Elmfield School for the Deaf, RNLI/(Dereham Branch, Nathan Williams), Simon Trafford
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