THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Robert Cross, of the life-boat station on the Humber. Coxswain Cross joined the crew in 1906, when the station, which was then known as the Spurn station, was under the control of the Humber...
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Fig. 2: Forward well. Note twin engine coolers fitted into bilges and also aluminium vent trunks at forward end of well sides which will route air from the wing compartments through to lower part of forward end box. Benches run down each... - View image in PDF
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SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT BARRA ISLAND SEPTEMBER 5TH. - BARRA ISLAND, AND STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES.
At 7 o’clock in the morning a message came from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore on Idrigill Point on the Isle of Skye, 40...
Cargo vessel alert AT 0450 ON FRIDAY. October 16, 1987— the day Britain was hit by the worst storms for 200 years—the coaster Union Mars reported to coastguards that she had suffered steering failure three miles south south east of St...
Services for August 1984 will be reported in the spring 1985 journal Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun: July 29 D class inflatable: June 18 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic21: July 13, 28 and 29 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic21: June 23 (twice), July...
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The ship's company of RFA Gold Rover, commanded by Captain P. T. Taylor, collected £234 for Weymouth lifeboat station and the money was presented to Coxswain Vic Pitman (1.) by Chief Officer J. Carew at Portland last January. With... - View image in PDF
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Stages in the self-righting trials of the 50ft Thames type at Brooke Marine Ltd, Lowestoft, in May and pictures of her at speed off the Suffolk coast by courtesy of Ford Jenkins and Brooke Marine Ltd. - View image in PDF
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1st February to 30th April, 1934.
Greater London.
ACTON.—Annual meeting, the Mayoress in the chair. Speakers : The Mayor and the district organizing secretary. Amount col- lected in 1933 £93, the...
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Littlestone - Atlantic 21 Lady Dart and Long Life II Littlestone's latest Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable, Lady Dart and Long Life II, was named and dedicated at a ceremony at the town's lifeboat station on 6 July...
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Oh the morning of the 17th November; while a large number of fishing-boats were out, the wind rose, on the turn of the tide, to a strong gale from S.E. The sea was also very rough. The cobles that were nearest the shore managed to get in...