Large flares were seen in the direction of Middle Scroby Sand at 4 a.m. on the 5th December. The No. 1 Lifeboat Covent Garden was at once launched, proceeded to the sand, and found the schooner Annie, of Wick, bound from London for Peterhead...
• In Rescue Call (Kaye & Ward, 2is.) Angus Mac Vicar has written an admirable brief history of the life-boat service. It is extremely readable and a great deal of information has been packed into no more than 128 pages. Many of the...
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WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE. — A message having been received by telephone from the Gunfleet light-house on the 7th February, the crew of the Life-boat Honourable Artillery Company were summoned, and at 3.45 A.M. the boat was launched. She proceeded...
THIRTEEN TRAWLERMEN SAVED Stronsay, Orkneys. At 1.30 on the morning of Monday the 16th September, 1963, the honorary secretary received a telephone call from the Kirkwall coastguard saying that the trawler Aberdeen City, 101 tons, which was...
A memorial to the crew of the Longhope, Orkney, life-boat who lost their lives on the night of 17th March, 1969, when their boat capsized in severe weather conditions, was unveiled in Osmondwall cemetery by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother...
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I just felt I had to put pen to paper after reading the recent article on Storm Force membership for children. It referred to the young man who won a competition 20 years ago by creating Stormy Stan the lifeboatman – well, I happen to be...
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Ex pilot cutter HARTLAND COASTGUARD received a message from the British coaster Candourity at 0255 on Monday September 3, 1979, reporting the sighting of a red flare and a flashing light from a yacht some 13 miles north by east of Trevose...
IT is just eleven years since the service to the Hospital Ship Rohilla, wrecked ofi Whitby on 30th October, 1914. It will be remembered how the Whitby No. 2 Boat, although badly damaged, made two journeys to the wreck, rescuing five women...
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Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At eight o'clock on the morning of the 26th of May, 1957, the Needles coastguard telephoned that the yacht Overlord, of Southampton, was in difficulties eight and a half miles south-west of...