Pool in the pool! Competitors cued up in sub aqua equipment to take the plunge after two full-size tables were lowered into Crosby swimming pool. Spectators watched through special viewing holes below the waterline and many joined in the fun... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 1.30 in the afternoon of the 9th of June, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the Royal Fleet Auxiliary tanker Wave Master, of London, bound from the Persian Gulf, had asked for a boat to land the...
NOVEMBER Launches 71. Lives rescued 91.
NOVEMBER 1ST. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. Wind and sea had got up in the morning while several fishing boats were out, and by eleven o’clock a strong easterly gale was blowing, with a...
Category: Services
Father and son trapped in cave Adifficult and dangerous service by Port Isaac's D class inshore lifeboat has led to the award of the RNLI's Thanks on Vellum to her helmsman Kevin Dingle and to a crew member, Mike Edkins.
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Category: Services
INJURED ON TRAWLER Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 6.55 p.m. on igth January, 1965, Waterford Harbour Commissioners were informed by Land's End radio station that there was a badly injured man with a cut artery on board the French...
Dark is the night, and fierce are the winds— , On, gallant bark! to the sinking ship, When lo, a cry Nor wind, nor wave Kings wildly forth—"A ship on the rocks, | Can daunt the hearts...
Category: Poetry
WHITBY.—A telegram was received at about 10.30 A.M. on the 19th January stating that a ship had sunk about sixmiles southward of this port, and that the crew had been compelled to take to their boat and come to an anchor. A message was sent...
JUNE 9TH. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 2.35 in the morning the coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station that a trawler was ashore half a mile north of Bamburgh Castle, and the motor life-boat Elizabeth Newton, on...
Stornoway, Hebrides.—At 9.15 on the morning of the 2nd of February, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a trawler was ashore near the eastern end of Goat Island in Stornoway harbour. The life-boat The James and Margaret lioijd put out...
Yacht aground HEARING, just after 1700 on Sunday September 13, 1981. that a yacht had grounded on the training bank off Buoy C6. Helmsman Edward Brown telephoned the honorary secretary of New Brighton lifeboat station. Almost immediately, as...