Skipper plucked to safety through wheelhouse window in 30ft seas and Force 9 galeCoxswain Alan Thomas of the Tenby lifeboat has been awarded the RNLI's silver medal for bravery following the rescue of three men from two fishing vessels...
When two holidaymakers in a hired cruiser started sinking in sub-zero waters, there was no time to lose …
Breydon Water, an estuary in Norfolk where the Rivers Yare, Bure and Waveney converge,...
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At 1.15 A.M. on 23rd November a telephone message was received stating that the lights of a vessel ashore off Ballyfrenis Point were seen. As this is a very dangerous part of the coast, the Motor Life-boat William and Mary proceeded to...
Fourteen Launches in One Day.
Two Services by the Ramsey, Isle of Man, Life-boat.
ON January 26fch last there were severe gales all round the coast, and fourteen Life-boat launches took place at Montrose,...
On 12th November last, the British steamer Vestris, two days out on a voyage from New York to Barbados and South American ports, sank in a gale 240 miles off the coast of Virginia, with heavy loss of life. Among those on board her was the...
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At 10.25 A.M. on 4th December the Coast- guard informed the Life-boat Authori- ties by telephone that a boat was flying signals of distress four miles E.N.E. of Seaton Sluice Coastguard Station, and the Motor Life-boat Joseph Adlam promptly...
At about 1.10 P.M. on the 8th January the Coxswain was informed by a fisherman that a fishing boat had broken down and was blowing towards the shore south oi Whitby. The Coastguard confirmed this and added that another fishing boat was going...
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 1.20 P.M. on the 10th October, 1938, a telephone message was received from the inspector of the Coast Life-Saving Service at Dublin that the Lucifer Light-vessel was flying distress...
Early on the morning of the 1st July the coast- guard telephoned that a small fishing boat, which had put out on the previous evening, had not returned to harbour.
She carried a crew of four. The sea was smooth, but there...
Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire. — At 8.20 in the morning of the 9th of December, 1948, the Hoylake coast- guard reported a message from the Southport police that a vessel appeared to be aground off Ainsdale beach, and at 9.10 that the...