Amble, Northumberland.—In the late afternoon of the 21st of July, 1948, the coastguard reported that the s.s. Wind- sor Queen, of London, which was off Coquet Island, had an injured man on board, and the motor life-boat Elizabeth Newton, on...
MANY of our readers will have learned by the newspapers that for some time past discontent has existed amongst our merchant seamen, chiefly on the ground of their being liable to imprisonment for re- fusing, after signing articles, to...
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— On the 26th September, the ketch Garside, of Bridge- water, was wrecked during a gale of wind off Pembrey. The life-boat City of Bath was at once launched, and saved 2 out of 3 of the crew. The mate of the vessel had previously endeavoured...
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—On the morning of the 5th February the police reported that Ryde Hospital had received a message from Niton Radio Station that the liner Delambre, of Liverpool, bound from London to the River Plate, was at anchor...
JANUARY 18TH. - WALMER, KENT. A request was received from the naval authorities at Ramsgate for the life-boat to take out a doctor to the American steamer J. P.
Mitchell, urgent help being needed by four of her crew. A...
ON the morning of 16th April the airship JR33 broke away from her moorings at the aerodrome, at Pulham, in Norfolk, and was carried out to sea by a strong W.S.W. gale. She was seen to cross the coast at 10.15 A.M., obviously in diffi-...
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Another service was also performed by this life-boat on the 12th September, in going off to the assistance of a sloop which was observed with a signal of distress flying a short distance below the jetty, while a heavy gale from W.N.W. was...
Stornoway, Hebrides. At 10.45 on the night of the 30th of January, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the Admiralty mooring vessel Moorpout, which intended to call at Stornoway at midnight to land a sick man, needed...
Left. The US Coastguard is a government-funded body which has roles other than lifesaving. The 44ft cutter pictured here was the basis for the RNLI's Waveney class, the first class of fast lifeboat in the Institution's... - View image in PDF
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Kilmore, Co. Wexford. At 10 a.m.
on 26th January, 1965, the Irish Lights Office asked the honorary secretary for the use of the life-boat to convey a sick man from the Coningbeg Lightvessel to the mainland. The life-boat...