Fleet-Wood's 44Ft Waveney Class Lifeboat Lady of Lancashire Joins The Search For Survivors. - View image in PDF
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Lottery winners Mr and Mrs Fisher at the helm of Hoylake's Mersey class lifeboat. - View image in PDF
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DOUGLAS, Isle of Man, Sunday January 26, 1986: a woman had suffered a suspected heart attack aboard the Belfast to Liverpool ferry, St Colum I. At 0313 Douglas lifeboat, the 46ft 9in Watson class, R. A. Colby Cubbin No 1, launched with the...
AT 4.45 on the afternoon of the 18th of May, 1956, a ten-feet dinghy in which two boys aged fourteen and fifteen were sailing capsized about half a mile from the shore at Minnis Bay, near Birchington, Kent. A small boy saw the dinghy capsize...
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Right: a memorial to the disaster erected at St Annes in 1888. - View image in PDF
photograph (r) by courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
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The schooner Eleanor, of New Quay, Cardiganshire, .was seen on the Constable Bank, off Rhyl, on the evening of the 2nd June, with a signal of distress flying. The tubular Life-boat Morgan was launched as soon as practicable to her assistance...
BALLYCOTTON, Co. CORK.—A new Life- boat has been placed here, one of the 34 feet 10-oared class having been substi- tuted for the smaller boat at this Station.
The new Life-boat is named the Oliver Qoldsmith, it having...
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The Humber, Yorkshire. — On the night of the 10th March a fog settled,but shortly before midnight it lifted a little and the life-boat watchman saw a vessel ashore on the Inner Binks.
The motor life-boat City of Bradford II...
ESCORT FOR FISHING VESSEL IN TOW Arbroath, Angus. At 8.53 on the evening of the 28th April, 1962, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that a fishing vessel was firing distress rockets two miles off Auchmithie.
Within...
MRS. LOTIXGA SMITH, of Gcdling, Nottingham, celebrated her ninetieth birthday on the K th of November, 1947.
In spite of her great age, in spite of ill health and in spite of an accident last winter when she was knocked...
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