MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.—A very severe gale from the N.N.W. was experienced on the 6th and 7th November, and the Lifeboat Star of Hope put off to the assistance of five distressed vessels, and rescued their crews numbering in all seventeen men.<...
Engine broken down RED FLARES fired by a vessel about a mile south of Boddin Point, four miles south of the lifeboat station, were reported to the honorary secretary of Montrose by HM Coastguard at 1310 on Tuesday March 28.
(From r.) Tom Nutman, DI (Scotland, N.), accompanies Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Hezlet, chairman of the Search and Rescue Committee, Commander Bruce Cairns, Chief of Operations, and Captain Bob Browning, BP Forties Administrative Superintendent... - View image in PDF
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New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 12.15 in the afternoon of the 7th of May, 1948, the Admiralty Salvage Officer tele- phoned that a man on the Queen's Fort, in the river Mersey, had been seriously injured. He asked for the life-boat and a...
Pile of pennies Jeff and Tina Kelly, proprietors of The Albert in Llandudno invited customers to donate to their lifeboat penny pile. The pile, which was demolished in July by Llandudno lifeboat crew members, raised £325 for lifeboat... - View image in PDF
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Penlee, Cornwall - At 6 p.m. on ist August, 1967, the coxswain was informed by the honorary secretary that two seriously injured men aboard the tanker Tahchee of Panama required hospital treatment. A rendezvous was arranged for 8 o'clock...
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 7.20 on the evening of the 19th of August, 1952, the coastguard reported that a ship was sinking on the Red Sands, and that the crew had taken to their boats.
Twenty minutes later the life-boat...
A NEW type of collecting box has been designed by Group-Captain John Potter of Crowborough. It takes coins of all sizes, and every time a coin is dropped into the box a model life- boat is launched. A number of these boxes were displayed at...
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The deadly oil slick - an aerial view of the tanker Torrey Canyon whose stranding on the treacherous Seven Stone Rocks near the Scilly Isles on 19th March, 1967, was the most expensive loss of its kind in maritime history. The St Mary's... - View image in PDF
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THE Royal Highland and Agricultural Show day was held in Paisley from the 20th to the 23rd of June, and the Watson cabin life-boat from Portpatrick, the Jeanie Spiers, a gift to the Institution from Miss E. S. Paterson of Paisley, was on...
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