Blackpool, Lancashire - At 10.40 a.m. on 4th June, 1966, the owners of the drilling rig BedfordX stated that the rig was in danger a quarter of a mile west of the central pier owing to a large steel caisson having broken loose. There were...
EIGHT ABOARD At 7.54 a.m. on 28th July, 1965, a small schooner was seen apparently drifting seawards from Hopes Nose with no sign of life on board. Observation was kept on the boat for another ten minutes and as she continued to drift the...
RNLI director, Rear Admiral W. J. Graham (I), with Mr Roger Smith, deputy chairman of Tricentrol PLC after the official handing over by the oil company of their gift of a new 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat for use in the relief fleet. The... - View image in PDF
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Hastings crew were out on service in reserve lifeboat Jane Hay on September 27, 1974. In a force 10 wind they rescued three men from FV Simon Peter; Jane Hay is seen here returning to the shelter of the harbour arm with the men... - View image in PDF
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Jack Simpson (r.) is photographed before he embarks on his 100 length sponsored swim at St Dunstan's Pool, Ovingdean which raised about £400 for the RNLI. This was a remarkable achievement particularly as Mr Simpson is blind. Bill... - View image in PDF
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Aberdeen, Wednesday, September 8: Lowering skies, spatters of rain and a chill wind greeted guests invited to Aberdeen's Regent Quay for the naming ceremony of the station's new 54' Arun class lifeboat, BP Forties; but the...
Category: Inaugurations
Man overboard DUNGENESS lifeboat's Emergency Mechanic David Tart was fishing at sea on Wednesday, January 13, 1988 when he observed that a crew member had fallen overboard from the fishing vessel Storm Boy, and that the boat's...
NOVEMBER 20TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
About 11.30 in the morning the Whitby coastguard passed on a message from the Kettleness coastguard that three motor fishing vessels, two miles north east of...
AT 8 p.m. on Sunday, iyth November, 1963, the honorary secretary of the Mumbles life-boat station, Captain C.
E. Mock, received an anticipatory mes- sage from the Mumbles coastguard.
This stated that the...
Category: Services
YACHT AGROUND At 1.40 p.m. on 2ist May, 1966, a yacht was reported in difficulties one mile east of Llanbedrog Point and about three miles south west of the station. The IRB was launched at 1.45 in a strong south westerly wind and a rough...