On the 26th March, 1860, a schooner was reported to be on shore on the Goodwin Sands. The Harbour Commis- sioners' life-boat Northumberland was quickly towed out to her assistance by the Harbour- tug Aid, there being a fresh wind from...
CATASTROPHE comes quickly at sea. On any dark stormy night a doctor's bed- side telephone may ring and the urgent voice of a coastguard may ask for immediate medical assistance to a ship several miles from shore. If he agrees, and the...
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WICKLOW | 20 JUNE
When a woman slipped and fell while stepping ashore from a moored boat, it was lucky that RNLI Helm Vinnie Mulvihill was at hand. Vinnie was tending the Wicklow lifeboat when he heard shouting and realised that...
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Lytham St. Annes.—At six o'clock in the evening of the 22nd of June, 1952, a resident telephoned that a yacht was aground on the south side of the Riddle Estuary. It could be seen that she was dried out close up to the South Training...
JANUARY 2 4TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. About 2.30 in the afternoon the naval authorities asked, through the coastguard, for the life-boat to go to the help of two landing craft about a mile south of Shoreham. A strong southerly wind was...
JUNE 22ND. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.
At 10.55 P.M. a message was received from the Staithes coastguard that a three-masted vessel had fired distress rockets three and a half miles to the N.N.W. A strong N.N.E. breeze was blowing...
A GIFT of ten shillings has come from a working man at Southend-on-Sea in gratitude for the rescue of three men by the Southend motor life-boat Greater London. He had never seen the three men before, but had let them have his boat to go...
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Wells: On board Ernest Tom Nethercoat Coxswain David Cox explains to the president the use and working of a drogue.. - View image in PDF
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