JULY 15TH. - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN. At 2 P.M. news was received that the steamer, St. Clears, of Newport, of 8,000 tons, had stranded at Whitberry Ness in a fog, and at 2.5 P.M. the motor life-boat George and Sarah Strachan was launched. A...
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Small boat swamped ON MONDAY EVENING, AugUSt 18, 1975, the honorary secretary of Whitby lifeboat station was informed by Whitby Coastguard that a small boat which they had had under observation had been swamped a quarter of a mile to seaward...
On the 30th November, the barque Annie Scott, of Arbroath, was stranded during a strong wind and hazy weather on the Cross Sand, off the Norfolk coast. The same life-boat went off and succeeded in saving the vessel's crew of 9 men. They...
In response to signals of distress at 8.30 P.M. on the 18th January, the Life-boat Francis Forbes Barton was launched. There was a whole W.N.W. gale at the time, and the sea was very heavy. Having proceeded in the direction of the signals,...
On 7th September, the Swedish steamer Kalix, of Stockholm, on her way from Norvic to Middlesbrough,stranded near Teesmouth. She was badly damaged; one of her holds was full of water, and her crew got ready to abandon her. When the Teesmouth...
On the 6th February the Life-boat was again taken out and rendered assistance to fishing-boats. The early part of the morning being fine, the whole of the cobles went to sea, but about 11 o'clock the wind suddenly changed and blew a gale...
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A thousand million of the reasons why every day and night men put out to sea in all weathers to earn their...
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The sale of The 1980 Northern Ireland Soccer Year Book edited bv Malcolm Brodie and published by Howard Publications has raised £595 for the RNLI. This book of statistical information is purchased not only by home enthusiasts but by... - View image in PDF
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