DURING 1936 the coastguard took action in the case of 806 vessels or aircraft reported to be in distress, in difficulties, or overdue off the coast of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The rocket life-saving apparatus com...
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(above) Richard Perks, inspector of lifeboats for the East Division was in command for the passage to Aldeburgh from the training centre at Poole.. - View image in PDF
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A large four- masted barque, named the Crown of Germany, whilst bound from Portland to Limerick with a cargo of wheat, came into Ballyheigue Bay, in mistake for the mouth of the Shannon, on the morning of the 10th July, during a S.W. gale...
LITTLEHAMPTON, SUSSEX.—The Lifeboat James, Mercer and Elizabeth was called out at 1.30 P.M. on the 26th February, by distress signals shown on the s.s. Brattingsborg, of Copenhagen, which lost her propeller about five miles south of...
HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother meets members of Dover lifeboat crew (below). - View image in PDF
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THE death recently in Belfast of Mr.
Joseph Devlin, the Nationalist Member of Parliament, recalls a notable appeal which he made on one occasion at the annual meeting of the Belfast Branch of the Institution in the Belfast...
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In front of the table. Admiral Sir Roger Keyes, with Coxswain Harry Griggs, jun,, of Hythe, and Coxswain Douglas Oilier, of Dungeness. Behind the table, left to right. Sir Godfrey Baring, Mr, George F. Shee.
and the Danish... - View image in PDF
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Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 2.15 on the morning of the 9th of August, 1950, the Southend Coastguard reported a small white light at the north end of Sheep Island. He thought it might be a vessel aground. At 2.43 the life- boat...
CARDIGAN.—In the early morning of the 16th March, while a strong gale was blowing, signals of distress were seen from a ketch in Cardigan Bay.
The Life-boat Lizzie and Charles Leigh Clare was promptly launched and went to...
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AUGUST 2 5TH. - GALWAY BAY, CO.
GALWAY. At 10 A.M. a m e s s a g e w a s received from the military coastguard lookout at Oghil Lighthouse that a boat was drifting four miles to the south-west, but it was not certain if...