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continued from page 11 had been washed overboard and into the propeller.

Ten minutes later it became clear that the fishing vessel had got some power to her propeller and she began to make slowly for harbour with the...

In smooth but very foggy weather on the 27th July, information reached St.

| Peter's Po:t during the afternoon that a vessel had stranded off Perrelle Bay, and within half an hour the Life-boat Vincent Wilkinson, KrTt...

DIAL BEFORE YOU SAIL PORTSMOUTH BRIGHTON BOURNEMOUTH Now, before sailing, you can check the latest coastal weather conditions anywhere in the UK, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week — simply by picking up your telephone.

The...

Construction b*gan last December1 on the first of a. new type of motor life-bo and three mere of the type have been laid down since. They are a development of tfl powerful Watson cabin type af life-boat. 46 feet long and driven by two 40...

Seven German prisoners of war, who had been wotking on tine beach at Wells, Norfolk, removing coast defences, and had seen the life-boat launched on exercise, stole a lorry from a car park and drove to the life-boat house on the night of...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 2.6 on the afternoon of the 26th of November, 1960, the coast- guard learnt from the police that two canoes had capsized in Breydon Water.

This information was passed by the...

Gregory Conneely, chairman of Galway and Aran Fishermen's Co-Operative Society, presents a cheque for £1,500, the result of a proportion of its fish auction being made over to the RNLI. (1. to r.) Noel Mickey, chairman of Galway... - View image in PDF

SIX FISHING BOATS ESCORTED Arbroath, Angus. On Friday the 30th August, 1963, at 8.45 a.m. the coastguard telephoned the honorary secretary to say that five fishing boats had gone to sea early that morning and were now returning to harbour....