DECEMBER 5TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
A fishing boat had been reported in difficulties, but she reached Port Isaac under her own power. - Rewards, £4 8s..
NEW ROMNEY, KENT.—On the 31st December, two French fishing-smacks were seen driving out of Duugeness Roads down on a lee-shore, off Dymchurch. The wind was blowing a strong gale from the S.W.
The Dungeness life-boat, the...
Category: Services
SEPTEMBER 20TH. - YOUGHAL, CO.
CORK. At 8.55 in the morning a message came that four fishing boats in the harbour were in danger of being swamped. A northnorth- east gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The motor...
Fig. 1: Section 6, looking aft at main watertight bulkhead from inside engine room.
help keep the bilges dry and sound, must be installed. As extra protection against dry rot, the whole of the inside of the skin and all...
Category: Drawings
JULY 15TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
A steamer was reported to have been bombed and sunk by enemy aeroplanes, but the lifeboat found nothing except a patch of oil.
Another vessel picked up an injured man in a...
JULY 26TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
An aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £13 l6s..
NOVEMBER 9TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. A vessel had been reported in distress, but no trace of her could be found.
- Rewards, £14 7s. 6d..
Training saves lives The benefits of the RNLI's training programme were demonstrated in August last year when crew members of Fenit lifeboat saved the life of a man using their newly gained resuscitation and cardiac massage skills. The...
The London motor vessel Tapti, wrecked in the Outer Hebrides (See page 161). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
APRIL. 23RD. - CLACTON - ON-SEA, AND WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards : Clacton-on-Sea, £25 3s. ; Walton and Frinton,.