RHYL, NORTH WALES.—On the night of the 11th December, while the wind was blowing a gale from the N.N.W., the schooner Lady Stuart, of Chester, was lying to off Point Lynas under reefed sails, and eventually drifted with the flood-tide and...
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Trapped by tide A LIFEGUARD telephoned the deputy launching authority of Newquay, Cornwall, ILB station at 1555 on Wednesday August 8, 1979, to tell him that two girls were trapped by the tide at Lamorna Cove. The ILB, manned by Helmsman...
Beach bother In August, when my granddaughter Victoria was on holiday in Dorset, she went with her mum and brother to a beach at Sandbanks, where she recognised some of the members of the lifeguard team from the photo in theLifeboat article...
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Whitby, Yorkshire - At 9.9 p.m. on 9th September, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an injured man aboard the motor fishing vessel Susitna needed medical assistance urgently. At 9.30 the lifeboat Mary Ann Hepworth,...
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At about 3 P.M. on the 26th August, during a whole W.N.W. gale, the fishing-boat Fear Not, was seen to miss stays and drift towards the rocks. The Life-boat William Sugden was immediately launched, but before she could reach her the...
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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Runswick, Yorkshire. At 7.30 on the evening of the 1st of September, 1958, two motor boats, one towing the other, left Whitby for Staithes in fine weather. There was a strong south- easterly wind, with a heavy swell and an ebb tide. At 8.15...
Horrific conditions for two lifeboats Clogher Head and Newcastle 's Mersey class lifeboats were launched in winds of Storm Force 10 to Hurricane Force 12 on 3 February 1994 when an 80ft trawler reported that she was taking water and...