About midday on the 8th March, the fishing-boat Irex, belonging to Port Patrick, became unmanageable in the S.W. gale and strong tide. As it was seen she could not make the harbour, the Life-boat Civil Service No. 3 was sent...
The Mincing Lane was also launched at 9.15 A.M. on the 2nd of May, to the assistance of two large decked fishingboats, the Excelsior and the Pilgrim, which were in danger during a heavy sea and a dense fog. The Life-boat pulled out about a...
Filey, Yorkshire.—The local motor fishing coble Isabella put to sea on the morning of the 28th of November, 1949. The weather was bad and, as it began to worsen, the life-boat The Cuttle was launched at 11.30. A moderate northerly breeze was...
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire - At 4.46 p.m. on 6th July, 1967, while the life-boat Rachel and Mary Evans was on exercise after engine overhaul, it was reported that a boy was stranded on Porthkerry beach at the Bull Nose. The tide was flooding...
IT is thirty-two years since R. M.
Ballantyne died, and last year was the centenary of his birth. He was writing for nearly forty years, his first book being published in 1856, and in that time he produced eighty volumes....
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Lifeboat station histories The Story of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Lifeboats (new) The Story of the Exmouth Lifeboats (updated 3rd edition) The Story of the Whitby Lifeboats (updated 3rd edition) all by Jeff Morris published by the...
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Storm tow TORBAY DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY saw the 35ft pilot cutter Leslie H leaving Brixham Harbour at 1145 on Sunday, February 19, 1978. The weather was so bad that he immediately became concerned for her safety and alerted the...
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At about 9.20 P.M. on the 6th September it was reported that a boy and a girl had left Lymington for Yarmouth some hours earlier in the sailing boat Mary Anne, but had not arrived. The honorary secretary, Captain A....
Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 5.15 on the morning of the 6th of December, 1959, the local fishing fleet began to leave harbour for the fishing grounds.
During the morning the weather de- teriorated considerably, and by 12.30...
YACHT LEAKING At 5.55 a.m. on I5th November, 1965, the coastguard reported that a yacht with her engine broken down was in need of assistance and that a pilot cutter was standing by. The life-boat Mabel E.
Holland was...