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Other Inaugural Ceremonies
Hythe, Rcsslare Harbour, Berwick-on-Tweed, St. Mary's, Campbeltown and TroonBESIDES the four Inaugural Ceremonies, already described, in which members of the Royal Family took part, five Ceremonies of new Motor Life-boats have been held...
Category: Inaugurations
The Guided Missile Destroyer U.S.S. Sellers
Eleven rescued ON THE MORNING OF Monday, November 1, 1976, the uss Sellers, a guided missile destroyer, arrived in Jersey waters to pay a courtesy visit. It was originally intended that she should anchor in St Aubin's Bay but as the wind...
Ann
HARTLEPOOL.—On the 24th March the schooner Ann, of Colchester, was seen about 6 A.M. making for Hartlepool, apparently in distress. When she was within about 2 miles of the harbour the No. 3 Life-boat John Clay Barlow put off to her, and...
The S.S. Red Rose
PALLING, NORFOLK.—On the morning of the 18th July, during a thick fog, the s.s. Red Rose, of Cardiff, grounded on the Hasborough Sand. Some yawls went to her assistance, but finding that these boats did not return, and that the vessel still...
None
ST. DAVID'S, PEMBKOKESHIBK.—At about midnight on the 27th May, rockets were fired from the South Bishops Lighthouse.
The crew of the Augusta Life-boat were summoned; the boat was launched, and on reaching the lighthouse...
The S.S. Edinburgh
Signal guns having been fired from the Gull Lightship during a S.S.E. wind and thick weather on the 29th of May, the Bradford Life-boat and Vulcan steam-tug left the harbour at 4 A.M., and proceeded to the Goodwill Sands, where the...
The Enterprise of Dublin
A schooner was observed ashore on the Causeway on the morning of the 12th March last, during a strong breeze from the E.N.E. and a rough sea. The Lifeboat Christopher Bmon put off at 7.30, and found that the crew of the vessel, which was the...
Carron II
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—On the morning of the 4th July, the coastguard reported a yacht, six miles S.S.E. from Woody Point, dismasted, and making towards Culver. A moderate S.W.
gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. A...
The Dredger William All Press
Hastings, Sussex - At 12.43 p.m. on 10th October, 1968, the honorary secretary was informed that six men aboard the dredger William All Press were in danger and the assistance of the life-boat was requested to take them off. At 12.57 the...
Thistle
Buckie, Banffshire - At 3.35 p.m. on 14th December, 1968, the coastguard told the coxswain that a yacht was in difficulties four to five miles north east of Buckie. The life-boat Laura Moncur slipped her moorings at 3.45 in a south south...