THREE CUMBRIAN STATIONS, St BeeS, Workington and Silloth, complementing each other, are the guardians of the southern approaches to the Firth of Solway and of the firth itself, just as Kirkcudbright and Kippford guard the waters to the north...
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LIFE-BOATMAN DIES ABOARD FISHING BOAT Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At 10.20 p.m.
on Monday the 12th of August, 1963, the honorary secretary was told that an 18-foot punt, which had been taken out lobster potting, appeared to have...
Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire. At 12.50 on the afternoon of the 9th of April, I960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a jet speed-boat with a young man aboard was adrift between Abersoch beach and Llanbe- drog point. As no...
IN MEMORY OF ROBERT THEOPHILUS GARDEN, ESQ., OP RIVER LYONS, PHTLIPSTOWN, KING'S COUNTY, IRELAND.
DIED 10TH OCTOBER, 1862, AGED 73 YEARS.
" Him that cometh (o Me I will in no wise cast out."...
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At 5.12 P.M. on the 14th May the coast- guard at Seaton Sluice telephoned that a steam trawler was flying " not under control " signals about five miles east of the station. A strong N.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea, and the...
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
Weymouth, Dorset.—On the morning of the 12th November a motor boat from H.M.S. Lucia ran aground on the south end of the northern arm of the breakwater at Portland harbour. Shewas reported by the Royal Naval Police at Bincleaves, and the...
To those who live near or visit the coast, an RNLI lifeboat station is a familiar and reassuring sight. But many are still surprised to learn that there are RNLI crews launching to the rescue in London too For more than three years now, the...
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DINGHY ON ROCKS Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 2.15 p.m. on i3th March, 1964, a member of the crew told the honorary secretary that he had seen a man in a dinghy being carried out of the Conway Estuary on the ebb tide. Visibility was poor...
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 11.15 on the night of the 4th of May, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two boys, who had been fishing from a rowing boat fitted with an out board motor to the westward of the pier, were...