Launches 52 Lives rescued 54 DECEMBER 2ND. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At 6.15 in the morning the coastguard reported that a vessel three miles south-east of St. Ives Head had signalled that she was sinking. A moderate...
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Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun ON 1050: January 8 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: February 22 Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class: November 7 Alderney, Channel Islands Relief 44ft Waveney ON 1002: January 28 Amble, Northumberland 44ft Waveney ON...
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SHORTLY after nine at night on 21st December the Boulmer (Northumber- land) Motor Life-boat L.P. and St.
Helen was launched to the help of a vessel which the Coxswain had seen to be aground on a reef of rocks off Seaton...
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Two calls ON THE MORNING of Friday August 13, 1982, a message came at 1148 from Thames Coastguard informing Aideburgh lifeboat station of a fishing vessel, Cachalot, which had broken down; she was anchored between Orfordness and Weir Point...
Stranded swimmer R LIFEBOAT CREW were paged at 1428 on Saturday, August 8. 1987, following a report of a man having been cut off by the tide below Hunt Cliff, Saltburn.
The station's Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable...
Shetland Coastguard contacted Lerwick Lifeboat Operations Manager Malcolm Craigie at around 1.45pm on the afternoon of Saturday 25 October 2008. Two large fishing boats were in trouble in Baltasound, 40 miles north of the station – could the...
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He owns a string of top eateries in London – so what is it that keeps restaurateur, chef and food writer Mark Hix coming back to the seaside?
There’s a force 7 off the Dorset coast, and...
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IN July, 1905, as will be seen by reference to the LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL for November, 1905, page 551, it was decided that three Life-boats should be installed with petrol motors, viz., Walton-on-the-Naze, Norfolk and Suffolk type, 43 ft. by 12...
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MARCH 9TH - 29TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM, AND TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE.
At 7.45 in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel aground. She was the S.S. Flimston, of over 4,500 tons, laden with steel and with a crew of 38. She...
FROM time to time the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has endeavoured to keep before the public eye the neces- sity for increased efforts to promote the extension of the art of swimming, and in doing this it has only been acting up to...
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