MAY MEETING RINGFORD, Co. ANTRIM. Two men went out in a very small boat, on the 27th October, 1941, to lift lobster pots. A moderately strong and squally off-shore wind was blowing and the sea was choppy. Apparently the small boat got into...
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Fourteen saved from yacht aground on the Goodwin SandsBoth of Ramsgate's lifeboats were called to an incident on the Goodwin Sands on 13 November 1994, when a French sail-training vessel went aground in a WSW gale with 14 people on board...
Atlantic 21 saves exhausted yachtsman from breaking seas on lee shoreHelmsman Alan Clarke of the Hunstanton lifeboat has been accorded the Thanks of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution inscribed on Vellum, following the rescue of a...
TORBAY, Tuesday June 16, 1987: Brixham Coastguard alerted the honorary secretary of Torbay lifeboat station at 1515 that a small speedboat had run aground off Thatcher Rock and that one of its four occupants had injured her ankle jumping... - View image in PDF
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FISHING BOAT SAVED FROM ROCKY GRAVE At 4.12 a.m. on 24th January, 1972, the Flamborough coastguard told Mr. Arthur Dick, the honorary secretary, Bridllngton, that the m.f.v. My Susanne was sending out radio messages requesting life-boat...
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TRAWLER ASHORE Stronsay, Orkneys. At 8.30 a.m. on I2th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Aberdeen trawler Loch Kildonan was ashore on sand in Holland Bay. There was a fresh south-south-easterly breeze with...
At 12.45 p.m. on 20th August, 1969, it was learnt that there was an injured man at Ballard head and that another man was stranded on the cliff. At 12.56 the life-boat R.L.P.
was launched in a fresh south westerly wind. It...
CLACTON-ON-SEA.—At about 6.80 A.M.
on the 3rd October, 1890, the second coxswain of the Life-boat reported to the coxswain superintendent that a barque had stranded on the S.W. Gunfleet sand, and on looking at the vessel...
The last crew of Greencastle. - View image in PDF
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