Windsurfer saved BRONZE MEDAL IN A SOUTHERLY GALE FORCE 8, gUSting tO severe gale force 9, a windsurfer was in trouble in the sea off Croyde. It was 1257 on Sunday December 1, 1985, when Hartland Coastguard alerted Appledore lifeboat station...
Even experienced sailors can misjudge their situation. Carol Waterkeyn reports on a testing service to two yachts caught out close to harbour
Mr and Mrs Burris checked the forecast on 25 June 2007 as they prepared to sail...
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GOUROCK, RENFREWSHIRE. Just before midnight on the 4th of September, 1942, the naval tug Romsey, with a crew of 20, dragged her anchor off Gourock pier, and the outwardbound steamer Lairdsburn ran her down.
She sank in a...
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The following coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and, in addition, those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations, were awarded an annuity, gratuity or...
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Four Signed Maritime Fine Art Prints • BY MICHAEL JAMES WHITEH AND THE CHANNEL FLEET The might of the Channel Fleet sailing for battle against the French.
THE FRIGATES VICTORY NEWS Homeward bound, the swift and strong...
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JULY 19TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. A German aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £4 10s..
Brothers and stations unite When Red Bay lifeboat crew were paged, there was no immediate threat to life for the couple on the yacht, Chtoe. Yet at Red Bay station brothers Tom and Paddy McLaughlin remember thinking: 'It was blowing a...
THE sad story of the acting Selsey coxswain, Douglas Arnell, who was obliged to relinquish his post because of colour blindness, was widely reported in the press earlier this year. It may therefore be helpful to explain the RNLI's...
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CONFERENCES ! We live in an age of Conferences. Never have there been so many. They range over the whole field of human activity, social, political, economic and scientific. At one moment we see the representative statesmen of the world...
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To JOHN BENSLEY, on his retirement, after serving 3 additional years as Coxswain of the Gorleston No. 2 Life-boat when the No. 2 Station was temporarily re-opened, an in- crease of his Pension and a Certificate of Service. Bensley had...
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