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—On Sunday morning the 1st June, while a north-easterly gale was raging, accompanied by a heavy sea, the coastguard look-out man observed a barque, about six miles off, flying signals...
Jack-up barge AN 'ADVISE LAUNCH' from HM Coastguard was received by the honorary secretary of Falmouth lifeboat station at 2128 on Monday, November 28, 1977, to take off the six-man crew of the jack-up barge Mer d'Iroise, in tow...
Broken Steering Gear ON SEPTEMBER 29, 1973, Second Coxswain Rowley at Scarborough, Yorkshire (the coxswain being away on holiday), was informed at 11.22 p.m. by the duty officer of the lighthouse that red flares had been sighted off the...
Sixteen seamen taken off blazing oil tanker The collision which involved a tanker off the Humber estuary on 17 September 1989, and the subsequent fire, made front-page news throughout the country, and the actions of the Humber lifeboat crew...
OCEAN CRUISE UK - No Fly in plete British Charters 5- . "*r ~* '.~t% Onboard the MY Van Gogh Thousands of happy cruisers have already fallen in love with the impressive MV Van Gogh, with its excellent range of facilities and very...
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Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun: December 19 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: January 8 Aldeburgh, Suffolk 42ft Beach: February 4 Amble, Northumberland 37ft 6in Rather: December 2 Arranmore, Co. Donegal 52ft Burnett: December 19, January 1,...
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AT 1.30 on the afternoon of the 3rd of July, 1955, the honorary secretary of the Lytham-St. Anne's station, Mr. J.
Kennedy, was told by the Formby coastguard that a yacht was at anchor one mile north of Southport...
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An earlier operation involving both launches was in I960 when an Alitalia DC-7C crashed seconds after take-oft" from Shannon Airport with 52 people aboard. It transpired that the aircraft failed to gain altitude after lifting off the...
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Difficult tow for Tyne in onshore Gale gusting to over 50 knotsThe Director of the the RNLI has written to Moelfre lifeboat station expressing his thanks 'for a fine service in adverse conditions' by the coxswain and crew of the...