OCTOBER 11TH. - APPLEDORE, CLOVELLY, AND ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At 3.50 in the afternoon the naval officer-incharge at Appledore asked the life-boat to be in readiness to launch. A south-west gale was blowing, with a very rough sea, and...
OCTOBER 11TH. - APPLEDORE, CLOVELLY, AND ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At 3.50 in the afternoon the naval officer-incharge at Appledore asked the life-boat to be in readiness to launch. A south-west gale was blowing, with a very rough sea, and...
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...
Seven lifeboat stations involved in 21 hour search for missing anglersA complex service on 14 April 1991 involved all seven lifeboat stations from Dover to Newhaven, lasted 21 hours and involved searching of an area of 3,400 square miles for...
CLACTON-ON-SEA.—At about 6.80 A.M. on the 3rd October, 1890, the second coxswain of the Life-boat reported to the coxswain superintendent that a barque had stranded on the S.W. Gunfleet sand, and on looking at the vessel with a telescope it...
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AT 8.30 on the evening of the 21st of January, 1955, Mr. Jack Hicks, a Scilly Isles pilot of St. Agnes, tele- phoned the honorary secretary of the St. Mary's, Scilly Isles, life-boat station, Mr. Trevellick Moyle, to say he had heard the...
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Eleven-hourservice in Force 11 winds saves six Coxswain David Mason could hardly have known how many 'firsts' he was going to notch up when he took Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's new Trent class to sea at 0500 on 29...
Aberdeen, Grampian D class: Aug 12 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: Aug 2, 3 (twice), 7 (twice), 13, 14, 17 (twice), 20, 24, Sept 4, 5 (twice), 11 and 26 Abersoch, Gwynedd Relief Atlantic21: Aug4,17,23,28 (five times), Sept 5, 11 and 14...
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Anglers landed THE FISHING VESSEL Duke Senior appeared to be in difficulties near the entrance to Whitstable harbour just after midday on Sunday January 19, 1986. There were a number of people on board, thought to be anglers, and the boat...
BOURNEMOUTH, HAMPSHIRE. About 2.20 in the afternoon of Easter Sunday, the 21st of April, 1946, the pleasure craft Skylark sank in Bournemouth Bay about a mile off Alum Chine, with 70 or more people on board. The weather was fine and the sea...
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