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IND COOPE and the Co-op have run a joint promotion in Scotland to raise funds for three D class lifeboats for service on Scotland's coasts. The first of the three, to be stationed at Stranraer, was handed over last March in George Square...
Category: Articles
Ben Doran
Two Wrecks in the Shetlands.
Stromness Motor Life-boat's Journeys of 260 and 240 Miles.
DURING March and April two vessels were wrecked on the Shetland Islands.
They were both vessels...
Charles Francis
During a heavy W.S.W. gale signals of distress were seen at 2.20 A.M. on the 6th March from a vessel in close proximity to the " stones." The Life-boat James Stevens No. 10 was promptly launched and with some difficulty, owing to...
A Commercial Fishing Vessel
Man clinging to mast THE HONORARY SECRETARY of YoUghal lifeboat station received a telephone call from the Gardai at 1745 on the evening of Wednesday August 1, 1984.
They had been informed by a passer-by that a commercial...
The Panamanian Coaster Avenir
Pounding on bank GREAT YARMOUTH Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Lowestoft lifeboat station at 0215 on Thursday April 16, 1981, that the Panamanian coaster Avenir was aground l'/2 miles north east of Lowestoft and bouncing...
Grace Paterson Ritchie Her Inflatable Dinghy In Company on Passage Through West Man Sound Photographs By Courtesy of Lieut-Commander P E C Pickles
Grace Paterson Ritchie, her inflatable dinghy in company, on passage through West man Sound. - View image in PDF
photographs by courtesy of Lieut.-Commander P. E. C. Pickles.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Right) the RNLI's President, Hrh the Duke of Kent, Talks With Ramsgate Honorary Secretary Captain Tully Before Leaving on a Short Trip After the Ceremony
(Right) The RNLI's President, HRH The Duke of Kent, talks with Ramsgate honorary secretary Captain Tully before leaving on a short trip after the ceremony photos Barry J. Crayford. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Havoc, Kermit and Guilding Star
Search in fog A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC reported to Tynemouth Coastguard on Saturday June 14, 1980, that a ship's foghorn had been heard east of Berwick Lighthouse.
Berwick lifeboat station was informed at 1310 and five...
Magrix
Swanage, Dorset. At 10.1 on the night of the 29th of March, 1960, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Magrix of Hull was ashore near St. Aldhelm's Head but was in no immediate danger. At 10.19 the life-boat R...
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Atlantic rescues two boys cut off by the tide Framed Letters of Appreciation signed by the Institution's Chairman have been sent to Helmsman Michael Picknett and crew members Michael Hoyle, Barry Knaggs and Gordon Young following a...