NOVEMBER 22ND. - ARRANMORE, CO. DONEGAL. At 12.15 in the morning the lookout post reported flares to the north of the island. A strong southerly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. The motor life-boat B.A.S.P., on temporary duty at the...
An afternoon's work A SOUTH-EASTERLY NEAR GALE, force 7.
deteriorating to gale force 8 with heavy rain squalls was blowing at Hayling Island during the afternoon of Saturday September 19, 1981. The tide was ebbing so...
The Berry Head coastguard reported by telephone at 10.25 P.M. on the 3rd August that a small sailing yacht was close to the Outer Cod Rock, on which one of the crew of two had landed before dusk.
Flashes were seen from the...
AT 4.45 on the afternoon of the 18th of May, 1956, a ten-feet dinghy in which two boys aged fourteen and fifteen were sailing capsized about half a mile from the shore at Minnis Bay, near Birchington, Kent. A small boy saw the dinghy capsize...
Category: Medals
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—About four in the afternoon of the 16th of July, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was in difficulties half a mile west of Whitaker Beacon. At 4.15 the life- boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched in a strong...
BELOW will be found particulars of the services of foreign life-boat societies to British vessels during 1933 and the present figures of their fleets.
Denmark.
The Danish life-boat service did not go out...
Category: Services
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Filey, and Flamborough, Yorkshire.— 19th January, 1938. At 2.35 P.M. the motor fishing boat Heather, of Filey, was reported overdue, and as it was not known in which direction she might be, the honorary secretary sent out twelve men in three...
Those interested in life-boats who have a knowledge of German will find a wealth* of fascinating information in the centenary publication Seenot Opfer Siege produced for the German life-boat society to celebrate a hundred years of service...
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Margate, Kent - At 4.27 p.m. on 7th December, 1969, it was learnt that the 50 ft. ketch yacht Aquila, on passage from Newhaven to London with a crew of four, had fired red flares. She had ripped her mainsail in a sudden squall and had...