At about 7 P.M. on the 20th November, during a strong gale from the N.W., signals of distress were seen in the direction of Wexford Bar. The same Lifeboat was promptly manned, and proceededto the spot, and found that the fishing yawl Dazzler...
CAISTEE.—The three-masted schooner W. L. J., of Swansea, bound from Goole for Plymouth with coal, and carrying a crew of ten men, was seen to near the Barber Sand and let go her anchor on the 28th December. As it was feared she would go...
Shortly before 1 A.M. on the 6th March, it was reported that a vessel about a mile to the north of the harbour was making signals of distress. There was a strong S.S.E. gale at the time and the sea was very heavy. With great promptness the...
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 13th of December, 1956, the harbour master received a message from the motor vessel Centurity of London, which had anchored in the harbour because of bad weather, that her crew...
PORT EYNON.—The Life-boat A Daughter's Offering put off at 12.45 P.M. on the 17th November, while a moderate gale was blowing from the W.N.W., and saved a man from the boat belonging to the ketch Favourite, of Milford. In returning to...
At 2 P.M. on the 6th May, the steamer Queen Louise, of Glasgow, carrying a crew of twenty-nine persons, stranded oi\ the rocks half a mile south of Seaham. There was a moderate N.E. wind blowing with a heavy ground swell, and this prevented...
Oh do pay attention 007 RNLI London Events Office held a James Bond fundraising party on the River Thames aboard HMS Belfast on 25 September.
Guests disguised themselves as their favourite Bond characters - ranging from 007...
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Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 3 p.m. on 5th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Amy Johnson was about to land the body of a man who had been dragged overboard by nets, with another fisherman,...
The Charles Dibdin Life-boat was launched at 3 A.M.
on the 31st December, during an easterly gale, in answer to distress signals from a vessel to the northward of Deal. The Life-boat was success- fully launched in a very...
GRIMSBY.—On the 7th January, notice having been received that the services of the Life-boat were required, the steam Life-boat James Stevens No. 3 left the harbour at 3.40 A.M., and proceeded to the schooner Demarius, of Goole, bound from...