Penlee, Cornwall. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 25th June, 1961, the honorary secretary received a message that the life-boat would be needed to meet the motor vessel La Colina of London off the Wolf Rock lighthouse and take...
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 1st July, 1961, Valentia radio informed the honorary secretary that a badly injured man on Tearsaght Rock needed a doctor, and the help of the life-boat was requested. The man had cut his...
DR NORA ACHESON who died in Aideburgh in 1981, in her eightieth year, had always been connected with the local lifeboat. It was thought that she was the first lady doctor ever to have gone to sea in an RNLI lifeboat on service when she stood...
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Hazardous as two casualties are brought to safety The rescue of two persons trapped at the end of a breakwater by heavy breaking seas has led to David Porritt, helmsman of Staithes and Runswick Atlantic 21 class lifeboat being awarded the...
The Coxswain of the Life-boat Alexandra was called by the Coastguard at 6 A.M. on the 23rd March, a steamer having stranded on the "Book" rock. The boat was launched at once and found that the vessel was the oil-tank steamer...
AYR.—While the barque Beech Holm, of Sunderland, bound from Ayr for Cape Town with a cargo of coal, was being towed out of the harbour on the evening of the 28th March, the tow-rope slipped from her, and before it could be recovered she...
Whitby, Yorkshire. — At eleven in the morning of the 7th of March, 1952fishermen reported that conditions on the outer harbour bar were very dangerous for returning fishing boats, and at 11.15 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was...
Aberdeen: On Sunday May 29 Aberdeen's D class inflatable lifeboat, manned by Helmsman Stuart Durno and Crew Members James Ferguson and Allan Charles, launched to the aid of a youth stranded on cliffs inaccessible from the land. When the... - View image in PDF
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ON THURSDAY April 8, the honorary secretary of St Ives lifeboat station was down at the boathouse in the late afternoon when, at 1628, he saw a 16ft sailing dinghy leave harbour with two young men and two youths on...
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— At mid- night on the 21st September a tele- phone message was received that a vessel appeared to be trying to attract attention by means of a flare. A strong E.S.E. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea and rain showers. It was first tried,...