Aberystwyth: On Saturday August 20, a fine, warm day after a night of violent thunder storms, Aberystwyth's new Mk IV Zodiac D class inflatable, twin-engined lifeboat was handed over and a service of dedication was held for the... - View image in PDF
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EARL'S COURT, JANUARY 4-14 THE COMBINATION OF BLIZZARDS and transport strikes at the beginning of January might have seemed enough to scupper any exhibition—but not the London Boat Show. In spite of these difficulties and a stand which...
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The Lame lifeboat crew with Royal Navy Sea King helicopter HMS Gannet, based at RNAS Prestwick, Scotland. - View image in PDF
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OCTOBER 18TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT.
A water-logged boat had been reported, but was found to be a telegraph cable buoy which had broken away from its moorings. - Rewards, £12 2s..
AU G U S T 2 2 N D . - D A V I D ’ S , P E M - BROKESHIRE. At 11.35 A.M. the coastguard reported a vessel in distress two miles westward of the Smalls Lighthouse. Permission to launch, was got from the naval authorities, and the motor...
ONCE more we are in a position to present to our readers a review of the casualties in shipping, the loss of life incurred, and the lives saved by the Institution in the year ending June 30th, 1912, based upon the Abstracts of Shipping...
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At daybreak on the 2nd No- vember, the smack Bruce, of Milford, was compelled to anchor in a dismasted state about three miles east of Tenby; the wind was blowing a furious gale from W.S.W. at times, and the sea was very high. The Tenby life...
A big lump of sea rising over the bow of the motor barge Roino which ran aground off Margate on 14th April, 1967. - View image in PDF
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Dur- ing a moderate W.N.W. gale with a heavy sea and rain, at about 9.30 P.M.
on 29th October, information was re- ceived that the open motor fishing boat Blue Sell, of Barrow, which had been fishing off Duddon Estuary, had...
Scarborough lifeboat, the 37ft Oakley Amelia, under the command of Coxswain Ian Firman, setting off soon after 1100 on January 26, 1984, to help the Fleetwood trawler Navena, which was making water and listing about nine miles north east of...