Two saved from taxi stranded on causeway West Mersea South East Division West Mersea's Atlantic 21 lifeboat carried out a somewhat unusual rescue on 26 January when she was called to a taxi stranded on the causeway to a nearby island.<...
ALDEBURGH.— A message by telephone was received from the Ship wash Lightvessel,Lightvessel, on the evening of the 12th April, reporting that a vessel was stranded on the Shipwash Sands. A strong N.W.
breeze was blowing,...
FEBRUARY 9TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON, AND THE LIZARD, CORNWALL. The S.S. Georges Mabro, of Alexandria, had been reported out of control to the south of Start Point, and the Salcombe motor life-boat put out at 1.40 P.M., but was signalled from...
A NOTIFICATION appeared in the Gazette of the 13th March last, stating that the Queen had been pleased, by warrant under the royal sign-manual, to institute a new decoration, to be styled the Albert Medal, to be awarded in cases where it...
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Baby on board Kerrie Hazel MacGillivray had an unusual start in life on 13 August, when she was born on board the Oban lifeboat. The Ralph and Bonella Farrant was called to the Isle of Mull to take mother Fiona to Oban hospital but Kerrie...
SING Ho! ho 1 ho! how the wild winds blow, And the breakers in fury foam, While, with thund'ring roar, o'er the storm-swept shore, The waves in their frenzy roam! Oh, many a ship, in the storm-fiend's grip, Would add to the...
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SUTTON, LINCOLNSHIRE.—On the 4thJuly the Life-boat Caroline proceeded to the assistance of the yawl Wave, of Goole, which was showing a signal of distress.
On arriving alongside it was found that her foretopmast and...
OCTOBER 20TH. - WHITEHILLS, BANFFSHIRE. At 9.30 A.M. the Banff coastguard reported distress signals three miles N.E. by N. from East Head, Portsoy, and the motor life-boat Civil Service No. 4 was launched. A W.N.W. gale was blowing, with a...
The District Inspector of Life-boats for the South East, Mr. R. D. Pike, being briefed by Staff- Sergeant R. Fennessey, U.S.A.F.,about the pilot's survival kit used with the McDonnell F-4C Phantom II fighter.. - View image in PDF
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