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A Rowing Boat
Clacton-on-Sea, and Walton and Frin- ton, Essex. At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 4th November, 1961, an antici- patory message was received at Clacton from the coastguard that two men in a local rowing boat were overdue. They had set out...
Lenie (1)
TOWED OFF ROCKS Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire.
At 5.5 a.m. on i8th March, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a Dutch motor vessel was ashore eight miles south-west of Porthdinllaen Point. There was a...
Lifeboat lottery
AUTUMN 2010
Ms J Pollard-Ovens of West Glamorgan scooped first prize of £5,000 in the Autumn Lifeboat Lottery and elebrated with a visit to her local lifeboat station at Port Talbot.
The other cash prize...
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Task of the Vikings
W ith one of the world's loveliest, albeit most rugged, coastlines - some 2,650km in length and encompassing waters ranging in potential dan yr from the relatively benign Skagerrak. via the remoteness of the cod banks off the Lofotens....
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Celerity
One of the finest services in the neighbourhood of Gorleston in exceptionally severe weather was performed by the steam Life-boat James Stevens No. 3 on the night of 15th-16th January, 1905. A strong S.E. wind had been blowing for days, and...
Snowdon Range
The steam- ship Snowdon Range, of Sunderland, which passed through and survived such a succession of misfortunes in mid- Atlantic, came very near to being wrecked when being towed into harbour on the 14th January. The disabled steamer was...
The Sailing Trawler W. E. H.
On the morning of the 7th December the Lowestoft sailing trawler W.E.H. ran ashore on a sandbank formed at the North Pier extension, while returning from the fishing grounds. A whole E.N.E. gale was blowing and heavy seas broke over the...
Ross Alcedo
Heavy tow for Channel Islands Tyne saves fishing boat and four crew St Heller's relief Tyne class lifeboat Owen and Ann Aisher is pictured towing the 105ft commercial fishing vessel Ross Alcedo into St Helier harbour after taking her in...
140,000 reasons for your support
When a kitesurfer was pulled to safety by Fraserburgh volunteers off the coast of Aberdeenshire last June, a major milestone was passed.
Bodgan Bocaneala (pictured) got entangled with his lines while kitesurfing in...
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Lifeboat Services (1)
Aberdeen. Grampian 54ft Amn ON 1050: July 3 D class: July 5 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: June 17, 18,26, July 7, 15 and 30 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: July 22 Aith, Shetland 52ft Arun ON 1100: July 7 Aldeburgh, Suffolk 37ft 6in Rather...
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