Cargo vessel sinks HUMBER COASTGUARD informed Superintendent Coxswain Brian Bevan of Humber lifeboat station at 2357 on Tuesday February 13 that the Panamanian motor vessel Revi was in distress 30 miles north east of Spurn Light...
Teesmouth, September 14, 1986: Tees Dock quay space is normally full of steel ready for export. This particular Sunday, however, saw a small oasis of colour appear as the site was made ready for the naming ceremony of Teesmouth's 47ft... - View image in PDF
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Four and a^dog cut off by the tide R,ichard Jenkins of Borth lifeboat has also received a letter of Ithanks from the RNLI's Chairman for his leadership and seamanship skills after he had taken the station's D class onto a beach in...
Injured seaman rescued Eastbourne lifeboat was alerted on 3 March 2000 when a boat worker, aboard a cargo vessel bound for Equador, was forced to head inland for emergency surgery in a bid to save his fingers.
The Polish...
Brighton and Shoreham lifeboat crews joined forces to assist fire officers during a fire that gutted the south end of Brighton's West Pier on 28 March 2003 The fire was raging out of control on the pier, with no way for fire teams to...
ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At about 11 A.M on the 12th June, 1939, information was received that a girl had fallen down the cliffs at Haggington Beach, Hele Bay. A strong boat was borrowed for the job, and the Institution’s petrol was used.- Rewards...
Category: Services
JAN. 1 8TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 5.18 A.M. a message was received from the Deal coastguard that flares had been seen about six miles south-east from Ramsgate.
A strong S.W. breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea and squalls of...
FEBRUARY 6TH and 9TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL. At 8.40 at night the coastguard telephoned that red rockets had been fired by a vessel three miles north-west of St.
Agnes Head, and the motor life-boat Caroline Oates Aver and...
FAR away inland, when tempests blow Wild through the dark'ning night, We list to the roar of the winds as they go, On their hurricane steeds to the fight; For the hosts of the Storm King are gathering fast Where the white-crested waters...
Category: Poetry
During the forenoon of the 19th January, the schooner Arrow Belle, of Aberystwith, bound from Glen- dower to Greenock, but then at anchor in the Bay of Dublin, parted from her cables and drove ashore near North Bull. A strong gale from the S...