Longhope (The Orkneys).
At one in the morning on 5th January, the Aberdeen steam trawler, Braconmoor, outward bound for the fishing grounds, went ashore on TornessPoint, in the Orkneys, three and a half miles from Longhope....
TWO LIFE-BOATS OUT TO DUTCH VESSEL ON FIRE Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk. At 4.36 on the morning of the 17th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston that a ship was...
BIyth, Northumberland. — On the morning of the 6th May the coastguard telephoned that three or four fishing boats were at sea between Blyth and St. Mary's Island, and that owing to very heavy seas across the bar it would be dangerous for...
Atlantic 75 Class Rigid Inflatable. - View image in PDF
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Trent Class Gough Ritchie II. - View image in PDF
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To WILLIAM MILLER, on his retirement, after serving 26 years as Coxswain of the Eyemouth Life-boat, a Certificate of Service and a Pension.
To ALFRED BINDING, on his retirement, after serving 24 years as Coxswain of the...
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Far right: Largs houses one of the RNLI's busiest inshore lifeboats.. - View image in PDF
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St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 8.55 on the morning of the 23rd of May, 1959, a message was received from the signal station that the local fishing boat Happy Return with a crew of two had left harbour at noon on the previous day and had not...
RHOSNEIGIR, ANGLESEY.—On the 20th July, the Life-boat Thomas Lingham proceeded to the assistance of the barque Zephyrus, of Plymouth, which had struck on the rocks at Cymyran, near Rhoscolyn, during a strong S.S.W. wind and heavy sea. The...
SICKNESS ON SARK At 3.40 p.m. on i4th January, 1964, the St. John Ambulance Commissioner informed the honorary secretary that a sick man on Sark needed hospital treatment.
There were light easterly airs with a slight sea,...