South Eastern Division Catamaran in Distress A WELL-REEFED CATAMARAN making heavy weather two-and-a-half miles off St Margaret's, Kent, was seen by the Coastguard at 9.10 a.m. on Sunday, October 21, 1973. Dover lifeboat station was put...
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...
The No. 1 Life- boat Covent Garden was launched at 1.45 P.M. on the 4th September, the Coastguard having reported a vessel was making distress signals. It transpired that the ketch barge Empress of India, of. Ipswich, whilst bound from...
Emergency steering: the tiller can be seen on the rudder post.. - View image in PDF
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Coxswain Seamus McCormack of Rosslare Harbour joined the crew in 1973 and served as Second Coxswain from 1977 until his appointment as Coxswain in 1987.
In 1979 he was awarded a bronze medal in recognition of the courage,... - View image in PDF
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A SEMINAR was held in New York from the I2th to i4th May, 1965, under the auspices of the United States Coast Guard to discuss the search and rescue organization in the North Atlantic basin. The delegates were not official government...
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e view of the Water Safety Roadshow at St Abbs in July 2003. - View image in PDF
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ENGLAND.
ELEVEN naming ceremonies of motor life-boats were held during 1939, seven in England, three in Scotland and one in Wales. Three other ceremonies, one in England, and two in Ireland, were cancelled owing to the...
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OCTOBER 8TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE. At 8.25 at night the coastguard reported that the motor boat Secret, of Littlehaven, with three on board, had left Littlehaven in the morning for Milford Haven and had not arrived. A second message...
On the 26th January the smack St. Patrick, of Bangor, was observed flying signals of distress at anchor in Red Wharf Bay, the wind blowing a gale from S.S.W. The life-boat at Moelfre was immediately launched to her aid, and found that she...