. . . she had to reverse off the beach. Launchers stood by to re-connect winch wire, should it be necessary.. - View image in PDF
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JANUARY 23RD. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN, AND PORTRUSH, CO. ANTRIM At 2.6 in the afternoon the Bangor coastguard reported a vessel in distress off Ballywhlskin.
There was a thick fog, but the sea was...
On the 1st January, the sloop Emma, of Portsmouth, was seen near this place during very bad weather with a signal of distress flying. The Brightuiett life-boat was dragged as soon as possible across the sands some distance, and then launched...
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Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 4th of April, 1958, the motor mechanic informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat five miles east of Ballycotton light appeared to have had her sails blown away. Ten minutes...
NOVEMBER 21ST. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 12.55 in the morning the watchman reported rockets and flares from a ship between South Shear Buoy and Tuskar, and at 1.5 the motor life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched. A southerly...
(Below right) Coxswain Harry Jones welcomes the Chairman, Major-General Ralph Farrant, to Hoylake lifeboat station on April 25.
Committee and crew were present in strength to meet him and show him their 37' 6"... - View image in PDF
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On the night of the 4th June the steamer Lightfoot, of Newcastle, bound in bal- last from Marburg, Germany, to the Tyne, ran aground about one hundred yards north of the coastguard station at Seaton Sluice in very thick weather.
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Fenit, and Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 3rd of May,1956, the Dingle Civic Guard tele- phoned the Fenit life-boat station to sav that two men were stranded on a high ledge of a cliff under the old tower at Ballydavid...