Injured climber HOLYHEAD COASTGUARD received WOrd on the evening of Saturday August 17, 1985, that a climber had fallen and was injured on the Go-Garth cliffs, four miles west of Holyhead. Maroons were fired and at 2130 Holyhead's 44ft...
Fishing vessel towed to safety The fishing vessel Orkney Reiver of Kirkwall fouled her propeller with a fishing net and was drifting eight miles south west of Fitful Head, Shetland on 10 November.
There being no other...
MR. J. W. EAGLE, J.P., of Walton and Frinton, MR. P. BRUCE LAURENSON, L.D.S.(Edin.), of Lerwick, and LADY ROWALLAN, of Kilmarnock, have all been accorded the highest distinction which the Royal National Life-boat Institution can confer on an...
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HAVE YOU EVER tried to speak to your Once you've paid for your plan, by single payment or family about when you're gone? If they don't want to listen, flexible instalments, your family or estate will never be it's not because...
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Facts and Figures In 1986 the RNLFs lifeboats launched 3,641 times (an average of over nine times each day) and saved 1,398 lives (an average of over three people rescued each day).
Over 44 per cent of all services carried...
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Gas tanker aground A DANISH GAS TANKER, Inga Tholstrup, ran aground on Craig Waugh, two miles south east of Inchkeith in the Firth of Forth, early in the morning of Monday November 10, 1986. Forth Coastguard alerted Dunbar lifeboat station,...
Man of Grace dies Derek Calderwood, former honorary curator of the Grace Darling museum in Bamburgh and tireless fundraiser for the RNLI has died.
Derek, curator of the museum from 1984 until 1995, was responsible for the...
Category: Obituaries
The wreck of the s.s. Maiorese, of Liverpool, on the 23rd May was unhappily attended by the sad loss of four lives through the vessel foundering very suddenly. The steamer, whilst bound from Liverpool to Genoa with a general cargo,...
Pictured during the presentation of this year's cheque for £1,000 are. from left to right, Don Galbraith, yacht club commodore; Brian Hurst, chairman of the Castletown branch; Rod Haire, representing Royal Life; Jane Galbraith,... - View image in PDF
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JUNE 23RD. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. A boat of the Air Sea Rescue Service had gone out to the help of an aeroplane which had come down in the sea, had caught fire herself and had been burnt out, but her crew were rescued by the examination...