TRAWLER GROUNDED Howth, Co. Dublin. At 6.21 a.m. on 23rd March, 1965, the Baily lighthouse keeper informed the honorary secretary that the 60 foot trawler Xmas Morn of Howth had grounded on Skerries Island inside Rockabill. At 6.50 the...
Falling tide, rising tide ONLY AN HOUR OR TWO after West Kirby lifeboat crew had been receiving instruction on mouth to mouth resuscitation from their divisional inspector, Cdr George Cooper, on Thursday March 6, and while they were still...
Easington, Yorkshire. — On the 28th March, during moderately rough weather a message was received by telephone stating that a steam trawler had stranded, and was in great danger near the old foundation of the Kilasea Beacon. The crew of the...
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Search for swimmer FOR WHITBY'S 1983 lifeboat day, Saturday August 6, the weather was fine and clear with little wind and calm water.
Just before 1500 the lifeboat crew were assembling aboard the 44ft Waveney relief...
Girvan, Ayrshire. At one o'clock early on the morning of the 16th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had broken down because of a defect in her steering six miles north of Corsewall Point. A num- ber...
Launch: The coxswain checks the depth of water before signalling for the retaining chains to be released.. - View image in PDF
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Geoff Mears, second coxswain of Exmouth lifeboat, and Bill Parkhouse, area manager of Watney's, push over a column of two pence pieces at the Exeter Inn, Topsham.
Worth £515.96l/2 (£463.56 around the column in... - View image in PDF
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Right: Cape Town's 12m lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
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Notes of the Quarter, by the editor 183 Lifeboat Services ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 185 Naming Ceremony: Fleetwood ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 191 Volume XLIV T . n _ D . , _ . , n . In All Respects Ready for Sea, by Joan Davies ....
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Southwold, Suffolk.—On the afternoon of the 5th June the Aldeburgh coastguard reported that a small motor fishing boat belonging to Southwold was passing northwards and making heavy weather. She was the Smiling Morn, with the life-boat's...