Palling and Cromer, Norfolk.—The s.s. New Oporto, of West Hartlepool, ! whilst bound from Middlesborough to London with a cargo of iron, on the 8th January, stranded on the Middle Haisborough Sands. The crew of the Palling Life-boat...
This service to the Hamburg was quickly followed by a service to another German sailing ship, also of Hamburg, the four-masted pole-rigged ship Paul, This service took place the following day Jon the Welsh coast. The ship, which was on her...
CRESSWEL NORTHUMBERLAND. On the morning of the 30th April while the wind was blowing half a gale from S.E., accompanied by a heavy sea, the 8.8.
Strathcarron, of Glasgow, bound from Danzic for Philadelphia, via the Tyne,...
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 11.38 A.M. on the 8th March, 1939, the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board reported that the Crosby Lightship was adrift.
A heavy W.N.W. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea and rain squalls. The No...
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BOAT ON FIRE Selsey, Sussex. At 2.12 a.m. on i3th July, 1965, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a boat was on fire four miles south of Thorney Island and that a helicopter had been sent. The lifeboat Canadian Pacific was...
IN 1958, for the third year in succession, life-boats were launched on service more than 700 times. The total number of launches was 714, or two fewer than the figure for 1957. Before 1956 there were only two years in which lifeboats were...
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Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 11.24 on the morning of the 28th of December, 1956, the coastguard telephoned to say the motor vessel Samba, of Gothenburg1, which had been drifting with engine trouble 122 miles south- east of Lerwick since the...
SEPTEMBER 13TH. - TROON, AYRSHIRE.
At eleven in the morning news was received that a man and two women who had left harbour the previous day in the auxiliary sailing boat Annie, were thought to be on Lady Isle.
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Last year, RNLI lifeboats rescued 8,313 people around our coasts (the highest number in our history), while RNLI lifeguards assisted 18,775 on more than 150 of the UK’s busiest beaches. That’s 27,088 people who are grateful for your...
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