At 3.40 P.M.
on the 28th September the Coastguard reported that a barquentine was ashore on the Sunk Sands, and the crew of the Motor Life-boat Albert Edward were promptly assembled. A moderate S.W.
breeze...
AT ten o'clock on the night of 18th October two vessels were seen to be aground and showing signals of distress on the sandbanks, in the mouth of the Humber, known as The Binks, and the Spurn Motor Life-boat was launched. A strong wind...
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By FAIRY PATTERSON, of Hall Street National School, Ballybay, Co. Monaghan.
How does the Life-boat Service Help the Cause of Peace between Nations ? EVERYTHING that serves to promote peace and goodwill, amongst the nations...
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On the South and East Coasts.
On the south coast the Weymouth Motor Life-boat was out for nearly six hours, from 6.30 in the evening until after midnight, in response to the S.U.S.
of the steam-tanker M....
ON the morning of 17th January the 2,500-ton steamer Plawsworth, of New- castle-on-Tyne, which was at anchor off Workington, Cumberland, dragged her anchors in a south-west gale, and went ashore. A very heavy sea was...
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Penlee, and The Lizard, Cornwall.—At 9.40 on the night of the 1st of March, 1956, the St. Just coastguard rang up the Penlee life-boat station to say that the motor vessel Crete Avon, of London, a vessel of 4,100 tons, had been in tow of the...
Stranded BELFAST COASTGUARD reported to the honorary secretary of Portpatrick lifeboat station at 0355 on Friday February 26, 1982, that Craigantlet, a merchant vessel on passage from Belfast to Liverpool, laden, had gone ashore off...
February, 1980 Aldeburgh, Suffolk January 25 Amble, Northumberland January 25 Anstruther, Fife January 31 Arranmore, Co. Donegal December 17, 18, 28, 29 and January 25 Barrow, Cumbria January 13 Barry Dock, South Glamorgan February 17...
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Sailboard out in force 8 MICHAEL TIGHE, a crew member of Sunderland's 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat, was near the lifeboathouse onthe afternoon of Sunday November 4, 1984, when he was told that a board sailor was in trouble near...
Yacht saved by shore helpers ILFRACOMBE LIFEBOAT, the 37ft Oakley class Lloyds II, had launched to a yacht in difficulties in an east-north-easterly gale on the night of Friday June 20, 1986. With the help of a local sand dredger Arco Tamar...