Donaghadee lifeboat, the 44ft Waveney Arthur and Blanche Harris, set out at 0929 on Monday January 21 to go to the help of the Danish liquified gas carrier Regitze Tholstrup aground north of Larne Harbour in an easterly gale and very rough... - View image in PDF
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Dover, and Walmer, Kent. At 7.12 on the morning of the llth of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Dover that two vessels had been in collision near the South Goodwin lightvessel. At 7.31 the coastguard reported...
JANUARY 29TH. - PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.
The Isle of Man Steam Packet Passenger and Mail Boat, Rushen Castle, with 150 passengers and crew on board, left Liverpool at 10 A.M. on the 27th January, 1940, and arrived in Douglas Bay...
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The Life-Boat House and Slipway St Mary's Isles of Scilly (See Page 51). - View image in PDF
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SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT WALTON AND FRINTON OCT. 14TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. The barges Esterel and Yampa, of London, were on their map from London to Norwich with cargoes of maize, When nearly opposite Orfordness they were caught by...
Miss MARGARET POWER, of Mount Royal, Old Common, Cobham, Surrey, the honorary secretary of the Life-boat Stamp Club, will be very glad to receive from readers of The Life-boat any stamps of the King Edward VIII issue which they will be...
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The rough weather abilities of the Severn class helped coxswain Hewitt Clark save the life of five men last November. In a service which won him a Gold Medal the lifeboat's strength was tested to the extreme when massive seas hurled her... - View image in PDF
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Lizard AT a dinner held at the Housel Bay Hotel, the Lizard, on the 24th of April, 1959, to mark the hundredth anniver- sary of the founding of the life-boat station, Earl Howe, Chairman of the Committee of Management, presented a...
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Newhaven, Sussex. — At 7.5 On the evening of the 28th of August, 1950, the coastguard reported that a vessel, with another in tow, had broken down off Beachy Head lighthouse. Later reports said that the vessels were drifting. At 8.8 the life...