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A Fine Service at Broughty Ferry

Date: June 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 330

ON the night of 20th January, 1937, the life-boat coxswain at Broughty Ferry, (Dundee), heard on his wireless that the Abertay lightship, which lies off Buddon Ness, six miles away, was asking that the Broughty Ferry life- boat should go out...

Category: Services

YLA Section

Date: January 1973

Volume: 42

Issue: 442

All inquiries concerning YLA matters should be addressed to: Mr. Alasdair Garrett, Secretary, Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Association, 29a Castle Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 ITT.

(Tel.: 0722-6966).FAIR...

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Tijl Uilenspiegel (2)

Date: Summer 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 509

Six lifeboats in search for missing Belgian trawler The new Tyne class lifeboat at Douglas, Isle of Man, had a testing time during her first service, in a search for a missing Belgian trawler which lasted for 11 hours in Force 7 winds and...

Northerly Storm - Spring Tides (From Page 121)

Date: Winter 1978

Volume: 45

Issue: 463

abbreviated log preceded a day of inspection and damage assessment for all coastal staff in the area. The divisional inspector of lifeboats for the South East, Lieut-Commander Michael Woodroffe, was diverted to carry out a survey of Margate...

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The Danish Gas Tanker Inga Tholstrup

Date: Winter 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 499

Gas tanker aground A DANISH GAS TANKER, Inga Tholstrup, ran aground on Craig Waugh, two miles south east of Inchkeith in the Firth of Forth, early in the morning of Monday November 10, 1986. Forth Coastguard alerted Dunbar lifeboat station,...

The Admiralty Salvage Craft L.C. 18

Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT SALCOMBE DECEMBER 4TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON. At 9.15 at night the coastguard at Hope Cove reported a vessel ashore at the lower end of Skerries, three miles to the east of Start Point. Shewas the Admiralty salvage craft...

Lowering Ships' Boats at Sea

Date: January 1856

Volume: 02

Issue: 19

ON a former occasion we brought to the notice of our readers Mr. LACON'S improved plan for lowering boats, intended to prevent the recurrence of such lamentable accidents and fearful loss of life as had then recently taken place in the...

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Leading Chief

Date: February 1916

Volume: 23

Issue: 259

At 3.40 P.M.

on the 28th September the Coastguard reported that a barquentine was ashore on the Sunk Sands, and the crew of the Motor Life-boat Albert Edward were promptly assembled. A moderate S.W.

breeze...

The Last of the "Malvoisin."

Date: June 1929

Volume: 27

Issue: 298

IN Lloyd's List for 4th May appeared the following announcement under " Malvoisin." " Boulogne, May 3.—The Malvoisin, a British ketch plying regularly between London and Calais, was wrecked at 5 a.m. to-day on the shore to...

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A Bronze Medal Service at Maryport

Date: June 1934

Volume: 29

Issue: 318

ON the morning of 17th January the 2,500-ton steamer Plawsworth, of New- castle-on-Tyne, which was at anchor off Workington, Cumberland, dragged her anchors in a south-west gale, and went ashore. A very heavy sea was...

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