AUGUST 10TH. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO. DUBLIN. Shortly after 3 P .M. a s m a l l yacht about three miles east of the harbour was seen trying to beat into harbour against westerly gale and a rough sea. She was kept in view by the life-boat...
Rescue a dramatic struggle becomesCold, tired and wet, the lone skipper of the yacht Wing had been without sleep for nearly two days when his yacht ran aground on the Long Sands, south of Skegness, on the morning of 5 May 2002. As rough seas...
Charles Bowry, staff coxswain from 1984 to 1986. He joined Sheerness lifeboat crew in 1969 as station mechanic and in 1970 was appointed Coxswain/Mechanic. In 1981 he was appointed Coxswain/Mechanic of Portpatrick lifeboat. 'Charlie'...
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THREE RESCUED Seaham, Co. Durham. At 6.42 p.m.
on 29th July, 1965, three men were stranded on North pier, unable to get back because of the waves breaking over the pier. At 7.19 the life-boat The Will and Fanny Kirby was...
Eric Thomson, honorary secretary of Whitby lifeboat station from 1953 to 1974. He was also curator of the Whitby Museum from 1958 to 1985. Mr Thomson was appointed an honorary life governor in 1985 in recognition of his service to the...
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Bembridge, Isle of Wight..—Early in the afternoon of the 22nd April, 1939, a sailing yacht was seen making towards Whitecliffe Bay with her sails damaged.
She was kept under observation by the coastguard and life-boatmen. A...
At 10.30 A.M. on the 14th November, the brigantine Emily Raymond, of St. John's, N.B., then aground on the North Bar, Wexford Harbour, exhibited signals of distress. A gale was blowing from the N.W. at the time, with a very bad sea on....
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—During the morning of the 16th October, 1938, nine Sea Scouts, from a Borstal Institution, with a scoutmaster, left Hunstanton in their motor boat for Boston. Soon afterwards the boat's engine broke down and the...
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In this issue News Letters Feature Lifeboats on the Thames Lifeboats move into the big city with the establishment of four new stations on the River Thames Lifeboats in action Award-winning rescues - including an account of four people...
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