Trawlers aided TWO SPANISH trawlers in difficulties two miles north of Skelligs rocks—one had a rope fouling her propeller and the other had engine trouble—on November 9, 1972, led to the Valentia, Co. Kerry, lifeboat being...
5th August.
S.S. St. Patrick struck a rock. Help given by another steamer.—Rewards, £9 Is..
A gift of two pounds has come from the recreation club of a motor works.
It was raised by the sale of a model of the Prime Minister and — an onion..
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During the morning of the 26th May two men went off in their yawl, the Diano, to fish in St. Andrews Bay. A strong S.E.
gale came up about 11 A.M., and the men were unable to get their boat into harbour. As the sea was very...
THE Empire Exhibition, Scotland, 1938, at Bellahouston Park, Glasgow, was closed at the end of October. The Institution had its own pavilion1 where it exhibited the motor life-boat of the 46-feet Watson cabin type which had been built on the...
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THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Leslie Charles Pennycord, of Selsey. He has been an officer of the boat for seventeen years, four years as second-coxswain and thirteen as cox- swain..
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Nineteen RNLI lifeboats played their part in the historic Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in 1940. In 1990 some of those lifeboats, now long retired from active service, returned to...
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At the last annual meeting of the Com- mittee of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, presided over by Mr. W. H. HAINES, chief clerk of the House of Lords, the honorary secretary, Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, F.E.G.S., reported that during the past year...
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ADRIFT OVER 18 HOURS At 10.13 a-m- on 2^th July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the fleet auxiliary vessel Tidepool was standing by the converted ship's lifeboat Witch, which had broken down and was drifting nine...
SEINE-NET FISHING BOAT DRIVEN ASHORE North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At 7.20 on the evening of the 18th June, 1963, the coxswain reported that the local seine-net fishing boat Faithful, which had a crew of six, had driven...