Berwick-on-Tweed: Old and new exercise together. The 42' Watson lifeboat William and Mary Durham was withdrawn from station to the relief fleet on September 17, 1976, being replaced by an Atlantic 21 ILB.
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OCT. 19TH. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.
During the morning the second coxswain reported that six fishing cobles had not returned from the night fishing. A gentle N.E. breeze was blowing.
The sea was...
St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At 9.55 on the night of the 26th of May, 1956, the coastguard reported that a boy had fallen over a cliff near St. David's Head. The life-boat Civil Service No.
6 was launched at 10.15 in...
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MARCH 13TH - 16TH. - CROMER, AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At about 2.35 P.M. information came to Cromer from the coastguard that a vessel, which seemed to be sinking, was about two and a half miles N.W. of Cromer, and was being...
SCARBOROUGH.—The coxswain of the Life-boat Queensbury having been informed that some fishing cobles were in danger, the Life-boat was launched at 4.45 A.M. on the 25th April, while a moderate gale was blowing from N.E., accompanied by a...
The Thames Coastguard rescue headquarters at Walton-on-Naze, Essex, late last year staged a special air and sea exercise off Clacton pier for visiting officials. Visible in the picture are the Coastguard helicopter, the Harwich life-boat,... - View image in PDF
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The following graphic account of a determined and gallant Lifeboat Service rendered on the occasion of a shipwreck which occurred on the Yorkshire Coast a few years since, is abridged from an interesting work, entitled, " Between the...
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The Littlehampton, Sussex, IRB Blue Peter I, alongside a naval torpedo recovery boat after a gas explosion aboard the vessel on 25th May, 1970. A naval mechanic was badly burned.. - View image in PDF
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