DECEMBER 19TH. - ROSSLARE HARF BOUR, AND KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.
An Irish Lights steamer bad been bombed and sunk by German aeroplanes, when carryto ing reliefs for light-ships from Rosslare to the Coningbeg Light-vessel, but...
FEBRUARY 10TH. - STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES.
Rockets had been reported north of Pabby Island, but when the life-boat was nearing the position given, she intercepted signals saying that an aeroplane crash was suspected and that...
SAFETY RULES A skipper whose 60-foot motor yawl rammed a 12-foot sailing dinghy, shipwrecking the latter crew, was fined £2 in January for careless navigating in Chichester harbour. The defendant had pleaded guilty to navigating a...
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Holy Island and North Sunderland, Northumberland.
—Early on the morning of the 28th February the coastguard reported to the Holy Island life-boat station that a vessel was in distress in Goswick Bay. A north-easterly...
Margate, Kent. At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 19th of July, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing boat had capsized and her crew of two were in the water one mile off Birchington. Ten minutes...
Some of the 16 rescued seamen shake the hand of Coxswain Brian Bevan as they go ashore from the Humber lifeboat Kenneth The/wall. They had been taken off the blazing tanker Phillips Oklahoma in what Coxswain Bevan described as 'the worst... - View image in PDF
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Late in 1995, seven members of Dunbar lifeboat crew and their Coxswain, Noel Wright, attended the pre-commissioning training for their new Trent class lifeboat at RNLI headquarters in Poole. The final part of the course was their passage...
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Alan Clarke Helmsman of the Hunstanton Atlantic 21 Spirit of America. Awarded the Institution's Bronze medal for taking off an injured man from the MFV Portunus under tow in the Wash in Force 9 winds,short steep seas and total darkness... - View image in PDF
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JANUARY 21 ST. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. The life-boat rescued twenty eight people from the Greek steamer Eugenie S. Embiricos on January 22nd and landed sheep and provisions on January 26th. For details, see January 10th, page 12.
On 10th February, at 2.45 in the afternoon, when a whole gale from the S.E.
was blowing with a heavy sea, it was reported at Stromness that the S. S Cormorant, of Kirkwall, was in distress in Eynhallow Sound. The Motor...