Two towed AT ABOUT 1600 on Wednesday December 6, 1978, Robert Gorman, a fisherman and ILB crew member at Aberystwyth, saw a capsized sailing boat and the college rescue boat about 400 yards off shore. Realising that they would need help he...
LOBSTER FISHING VESSEL TOWED TO SAFETY Fenit, Co. Kerry. At 7.15 on the evening of the 3rd June, 1963, the honorary secretary intercepted a radio call from Valentia radio reporting a lobster fishing vessel broken down off Kerryhead. At 7.30...
Seahani, Co. Durham. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 25th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small fishing boat Silver Spray had broken down with engine trouble. The life-boat George Elmy was...
TAKEN TO ROSSAVEEL At 2.40 p.m. on 28th September, 1964, the local district nurse requested the use of the life-boat to take an injured child to Rossaveel. No other boat being available, the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her moorings...
Life-boat 70-002, Lerwick, Shetlands - At 12.9 p.m. on loth July, 1966, a local visitor informed the coxswain that there was a dinghy apparently in difficulties off the harbour. Using his binoculars the coxswain saw that the dinghy was...
At 3.32 p.m. on 3Oth August, 1966, the motor yacht Blue Marlin was seen drifting two miles south of Chichester. At 3.50 the life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched ina rough sea and a south westerly wind. It was three and a half hours after...
Whitby, Yorkshire - At 6.30 a.m. on I5th May, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel was still at sea, and in view of the heavy swell which had built up on the bar with a strong flood after heavy rain, it...
MAY 13TH. - WALMER, KENT. About 4.50 in the afternoon a signal was received from the S.S Edwin D. Howard, of Pensacola, U.S.A., lying in the Downs, that she required a doctor. A moderate north-easterly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The...
THE following is a copy of a Circular issued by the Board of Trade to the different Local Life-boat Committees and others who have charge of life-boats on the coasts:— " Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade, Marine Department,...
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W ith one of the world's loveliest, albeit most rugged, coastlines - some 2,650km in length and encompassing waters ranging in potential dan yr from the relatively benign Skagerrak. via the remoteness of the cod banks off the Lofotens....
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