Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.44 on the evening of the 29th of July, 1953, after the life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3 had been launched to the tanker San Cirilo, the coast- guard reported that a yacht was ashore on Red Sands. The...
Two Wrecks in the Shetlands.
Stromness Motor Life-boat's Journeys of 260 and 240 Miles.
DURING March and April two vessels were wrecked on the Shetland Islands.
They were both vessels...
Two lifeboats in rescue of fishing boat crew from foot of sheer cliffsCoxswain Peter Race of the Teesmouth Lifeboat has been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal for bravery following the rescue of two men from the fishing vessel Gang...
COXSWAIN WATCHES TILL YACHT IS EM TROUBLE Appledore, Devon. During the morning of the 21st July, 1962, the coxswain saw a small motor yacht with one man on board leave Appledore in a strong westerly breeze and an ebbing tide. He kept the...
Broken Steering Gear ON SEPTEMBER 29, 1973, Second Coxswain Rowley at Scarborough, Yorkshire (the coxswain being away on holiday), was informed at 11.22 p.m. by the duty officer of the lighthouse that red flares had been sighted off the...
Above: Ian Venner manoeuvres the dead whale into the slings, ready for towing to the local boatyard.. - View image in PDF
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Dover, Kent. At 8.5 p.m. on nth November, 1965, a yacht in Dover harbour was reported to be in danger of capsizing against a Trinity House pilot cutter which had it in tow. The life-boat Southern Africa left her moorings at 8.18 in an...
TOW FOR YACHT IN STRONG GALE Anstruther, Fife. At 5.47 on the morning of the 24th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was drifting two miles south-east-by-south from Fifeness.
The...
The RNLI's Assistant PRO Robin Sharp visited the Isle of Man, the Institution's 'ancestral home' and examined how the island's lifeboat service is being adapted to the new generation of lifeboats… At could be said that...
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1951 s. d.
185,434 4 6 399 7 10 39,000 9 11 9,599 10 7 97 9 4 30,205 8 3 13.142 13 - 1,080 1 7 2,682 19 5 281348 4 5 016 18 6 010 11 11 2.024 7 6 1,321 17 3 92 17 2 4,006 12 4...
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