WORK has been in progress for some years to produce a new carriage for transporting life-boats down to the sea at stations where there is no suitable harbour and no means of launching a life-boat down a slipway. For some time the need has...
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Atlantic saves five from speedboat capsized in heavy surf Helmsman Brian Gould of the Cullercoats lifeboat has been awarded the Thanks of the Institution on Vellum for saving five people from their capsized speedboat on 8 April 1995.Crew...
Early on the morning of the 9th February, a rocket was seen from | the end of the Breakwater, thrown in an easterly direction, denoting a vessel re- quiring assistance. As the weather was comparatively fine at the time the pilots' and...
• She is ex-lifeboat The Three Sisters (ON771), a 35ft motor Liverpool lifeboat. She was stationed at Coverack, Cornwall, between 1934 and 1954 where she launched 26 times saving 61 lives. She was sold out of service in 1964 and has had a... - View image in PDF
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At 1 A.M. on the 4th November it was reported that a schooner was in distress near Gribbin Head and wanted assistance. The Life-boat James William and Caroline Courtney was launched and proceeded to the position indicated, where she...
YACHT TOWED CLEAR IN GALE Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 6.55 on the evening of the llth August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had gone aground some thirty or forty yards off St. Osyth beach. Of her crew of...
JANUARY 16TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 1.15 P.M. it was reported that a barge, disabled and burning distress flares, was driving towards the Newcome Sands.
A whole N.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy...
Sir William Arnold, Guernsey's new 52' Arun lifeboat, was named by HRH the Duchess of Kent at St Peter Port on May 23; it was the first visit made by the Duchess to Guernsey—on a day of sun and showers she was warmly welcomed by the... - View image in PDF
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Swanage, Dorset.—On the morning of the 13th July a visitor set out from Boscombe in a small boat with theobject of rowing to Swanage. He had no knowledge of the tides and got into difficulties. At 3.20 P.M. he was seen by the Swanage...
Keith Graham, coxswain of Exmouth lifeboat, Sue Pollard and Vic Cocker, chief executive of Severn Trent Water and chairman of the Forward Birmingham campaign, at its launch at the NEC.. - View image in PDF
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