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Around the Coast
FROM AN ARTICLE on Horton and Port Eynon ILB station by Mr C. R. Chatterton published in the Newsletter of Reardon Smith Line. Mr Chatterton is chairman of both the shipping line and the ILB station branch: 'Operating an inshore lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Alpheus Marshall
BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE of WIGHT.
— On the 9th February, the barque Alpheus Marshall, of Digby, N.S., bound from New York to London, with a general cargo, went ashore on Atherfield Ledge during a fog. The wind was blowing...
Wilkelmine
The Coastguard called up the Coxswain of the Life-boat Charles Dibdin at 6 A.M. on the 2nd May, and reported that a large ship was ashore on the Main, near Sandown Castle. The crew were promptly as- sembled and the Life-boat launched in a...
Camilla
BLYTH.—On November 11th the brig Camilla, of Portsmouth, parted her anchors and drove on shore, in an E.S.E.
gale, near Blyth; the Life-boat Salford was as soon as possible launched, and went to her aid, taking off and...
Henrietta, of Memel
One of the most gal- lant Life-boat services ever rendered on the Scotch coast was performed by the Montrose Life-boats on the 21st Decem- ber, it being attended with the greatest risk to some of the brave Life-boat men.
It...
Avenir
SOUTHEND, ESSEX.—During a strong gale from the S.W. and a rough sea on the 2nd September the brig Avenir, of and for Krageroe, Norway, from London, in ballast, parted both her anchors and drifted on1 to the Maplin Sands. The No. 1 Life-boat...
Exchange
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 9.8 on the evening of the 24th of December, 1959, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a message received from the police at Sheerness that shouts for help had been heard near the Harty ferry in...
ON GUARD
Ten new beaches will be watched over by RNLI lifeguards this year, making a total of 224 safer spots for your Summer.
The service covers top holiday hotspots in England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Jersey, and...
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Salopia
NINE TEENAGERS RESCUED Ramsgate, Kent. At 8.47 p.m. on Thursday the 5th September, 1963, the coxswain received a report from the east pier watchman, that a yacht was in difficulties about two miles south of the pier. The life-boat Michael...
Fishing Cobles (1)
Fifteen local motor fishing cobles put to sea early on the morning of the 2nd April, in moderate weather. By 8 A.M. the weather was rapidly becoming worse and the sea was very rough. The pulling and sailing life-boat Hollon the Third was...