Persons Time of rescued from 1926. Launching. shipwreck.
Jan. 6. 9.10a.m. Fishing smack Ivan, of Lowestoft. Lowestoft Life-boat stood by vessel.
„ 12. 8. 2 p.m. S.S. Valdura, of Glasgow. Kilmore...
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At 3.30 P.M.
on the 27th October, information was received that a small boat was drifting out to sea about a mile from Garryvoe Strand. In a strong northerly gale, with a heavy sea and rain, the Motor Life-boat Mary...
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—On the 13th February stormy weather prevailed 'on our north-east coast, and many of-the boats which had proceeded to their fishing-grounds were placed in great jeopardy in returning to...
On the evening of the 24th April a telephone message was received from the coast- guard that a barge was anchored off Platters reef with her sprit-sail blown away, and was flying a distress signal.
A motor boat had...
26th April. The local fishing boat Britannia put out on the morning of the 25th April, but did not return when expected, and some anxiety was felt. Soon after 11 P.M.
the honorary secretary asked the coast- guard to signal...
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 2.25 in the afternoon of the 16th of September, 1949, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that a message had been received from the Llandudno coast- guard that a yacht bound for Liverpool was making heavy weather....
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 5.48 on the 7th of November, 1957, the coast- guard reported that a Hunter aircraft had crashed into the sea and that the pilot had baled out ten miles north of Lundy. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched at...
Broken rudder A YACHT in trouble to the south of the Calf Islands, off the southern Irish coast, was firing red flares. They were sighted and reported to the honorary secretary of Baltimore lifeboat station at 1320 on the afternoon of Friday...
/ 1 . Notes of the Quarter, by Patrick Howarth 147 International Lifeboat Conference, by Patrick Howarth 148 XLVT Summary of Accounts for 1978 149 468 Lifeboat Services 150 Lifeboats of the World: Part II—Sea rescue outside Europe, by...
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