DEC. 11TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
Members of a salvage party on board the wrecked minesweeper Cape Comorin had been injured, but seas breaking over the vessel made it impossible for the life-boat to take them off and they...
Owing to the need for the strictest economy in the use of paper the Institution's journal "The Life-boat", stopped publication after the number for April, 1940. In its place single sheet bulletins will be issued from time to...
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JANUARY 15TH. - DONAGHADEE, CLOUGHEY, AND NEWCASTLE, CO. DOWN. A steamer had gone ashore. The life-boats searched in the fog without finding her, for she had got off and had gone on her way to Belfast. - Rewards : Donaghadee, £20 0S. 6d...
High speed response helps mine-damaged trawler to safetyThe fast response time of the high-speed Atlantic 21 was put to good use at Harwich last October when the honorary secretary of the station decided to make use of the rigid inflatable...
DURING THE EVENING of Tuesday July 28, 1981, Blackpool's D class inflatable lifeboat had been out on service, searching for what a man on shore had reported might be an upturned boat out to sea.
Nothing had been found...
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APRIL 2ND. - EYEMOUTH AND ST.
ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE. At 2.20 in the afternoon a message was received at Eyemouth that a patrol vessel had been attacked and sunk by enemy aeroplanes about three miles out, and at 2.35 the motor...
Despite injury FAIRLIGHT COASTGUARD informed the Hastings deputy launching authority at 1120 on December 23, 1974, that there had been an explosion on board the Argentinian warship Candida de Lasala and medical help was needed. Maroons were...
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 6.10 on the morning of the llth of Septem- ber, 1950, the Kingston-on-Sea coast- guard reported that a yacht, ashore between the Brighton piers, had asked for the life-boat. Five minutes later the life-boat Rosa...
BESIDES the exhibition on the South Bank of the Thames there were two travelling exhibitions. One by sea and the other by land. The exhibition by sea was mounted in the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Campania, which sailed from Southampton early in...
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