Boarding boat rescue from saltings REQUESTING THE LAUNCHING of Calshot lifeboat at 2207 on Thursday, January 29, HM Coastguard told the honorary secretary that at 2054 a red flare had been reported in Ashlett Creek and. in view of the very...
Fishing vessel aground AT 29 MINUTES PAST MIDNIGHT on Thursday, August 27, 1987, Moray Coastguard overheard the fishing vessel Constant Star inform Peterhead Harbour Control that she had run aground on the Skerry Rock and required immediate...
Deep water 'rocks' sink yacht Donaghadee Ireland Division Donaghadee's Arun class lifeboat City of Belfast was called to an unusual incident on 2 July 1988 when a Mayday call was heard from a sinking yacht at...
Cullercoats, Northumberland.—Shortly before 6 A.M. on the 23rd August, 1938, the Seaton Sluice coastguard reported a trawler ashore just south of St.
Mary's Island. A gentle southerly breeze was blowing, with a slight...
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT WALTON AND FRINTON JANUARY 19TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. In the early morning flares were seen burning about half a mile north of the pier at Walton, close to the beach. Asouth-easterly gale was blowing, with...
Again, on the 1st December, the Lifeboat went out in response to signals of distress shown from the schooner Catherine & Ellen, which had been overtaken by strong gale from the N.N.W., and which had brought up far out in the bay. The...
Crabber swamped in Force 12 windsCoxswain/Mechanic Malcolm MacDonald of Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, has been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal for a service in which the Stornoway lifeboat rescued two men from a crabber which was...
Broken in two A MESSAGE from HM Coastguard was received by New Brighton lifeboat station at 1438 on Saturday July 11 to say that a motorboat, Mary, was in trouble off New Brighton bathing pool; she was taking in water.
The...
Fishing vessel towed to safety in storm force winds Appledore and Ilfracombe lifeboats were both involved in a service to a fishing vessel near Bideford Bar on 31 March 1994. Coxswain Michael Bowden of Appledore lifeboat was awarded the...
SICK MAN LANDED FROM YACHT St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 11.20 on the night of Thursday the 8th of August, 1963, the Area Commissioner of the St.
John Ambulance Brigade asked the life-boat to take a sick man off the yacht...