When three people found themselves clinging to the bow of a sinking sailboat in the Dee Estuary, their hopes lay in the skill of a lifeboat crew – and no small amount of luck
On 22 February...
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LI. HASTINGS.—The Charles Arkcoll, 34 feet by 8 feet 3 inches, 10 oars.
" Thou old sea town, crouching beneath the rocks, Like a strong lion waiting for his prey— Where are thy river, harbour, and the docks, In which...
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(Below) In the calm after the storm the tiny gap into which the lifeboat was manoeuvred can clearly be seen. At the time of the service it was dark, blowing Force 10 and with a large surge running. Photos Graeme Story, Lerwick. - View image in PDF
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At 1233 on Tuesday November 18, a mayday was received by Dover Coastguard from the trawler Guiding Hand, on fire six miles north east of Ramsgate.
Her four crew were fighting the fire. A helicopter was scrambled from RAF...
Going for a run is the perfect way to give your health a boost this Autumn. It's the ultimate free stress-buster and fat-shifter, and it's easy to get started
The joys of jogging...
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PERHAPS Mr. Plimsoll, in the interest of Saving Life at Sea, has done no more useful thing than pressing on the atten- tion of Parliament the necessity for addi- tional precautions and legal requirements to prevent the shifting of grain and...
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The Royal National Lifeboat Institution has 138 active lifeboat stations in Britain. There are 67 Fordpowered lifeboats and Ford engines are being used exclusively in the re-engining programme. The basic unit in the new glass-reinforced...
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AIRCRAFT CRASHED Appledore, and Clovelly, Devon.
At 12.21 p.m. on iyth February, 1964, the coastguard told the Appledore honorary secretary that an aircraft had crashed into the sea four to seven miles north of Hartland...
TflLL3HIP5 BUILD YOUR OWN MARITIME LIBRARY Whether you want to sail vicariously with Clare Francis today or Joshua Slocum last century, should you enjoy learning knots by the fireside or boning up on engines (to be ready for fitting-out or...
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Rosslare Harbour (Co. Wexford).
On the 20th October, the schooner Mountblairy, of Plymouth, was driven ashore about five miles from Rosslare Harbour in a whole gale, with a very heavy sea running. She lay surrounded by...