Surfsports are becoming ever more popular, and leading to more and more lifeboat and lifeguard rescues.
With this in mind, the RNLI has published In the Surf, a guide to surfsport safety.
Packed with...
Category: Articles
4th May. A schooner had been dragging her anchors, but she was taken in tow by a tug.— Rewards, £12 12s. 6d..
AUGUST 11TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 1.30 P.M. a destroyer lying off Margate and two minesweepers were being attacked by German aeroplanes. A fresh westerly breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The motor life-boat J. B. Proudfoot, on temporary...
NOVEMBER 6TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO.
DOWN. At 10.30 P.M. the coastguard at Donaghadee reported a steamer ashore in Belfast Lough. A moderate N.E. breeze was blowing, but the sea was rough. A later message asked for help, and the...
Fleetwood, Lanes.—About 8.10 on the evening of the 28th of April, 1957, the life-boat coxswain was told by the Formby coastguard that a small fishing boat had broken down with engine trouble and was in a dangerous posi- tion off Rossall...
TOW FOR CONVERTED SHIP'S BOAT Barrow, Lancashire. At 10.12 on the night of the 9th June, 1963, the Walney Island lighthouse keeper rang up the coxswain to say that three people in a small boat were signalling with a flag a mile...
15th August. Searched for a small boat containing two boys, but failed to find it.—Rewards, £5 12s..
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—27th July. A fire was seen at sea, but nothing was found.—Rewards, £22 12s. 6d..
DECEMBER 5TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. An Admiralty tug was in difficulties, but she was taken in tow by a minesweeper. - Rewards, £5 12s..
Wicklow.—At 5.5. on the evening of the 7th of September, 1952, the Wick- low Head lightkeeper telephoned that a boy had fallen over a cliff a quarter of a mile north of Wicklow Head. At 5.20 the life-boat Lady Kylsant, with the ex-second...