At daybreak on the morning of the 12th December a brig was observed on her broadside off this station, with her crew of 6 men in their boat, a short distance from the vessel. There was a heavy surf breaking on the shore at the time, and,...
On the 25th October the Christopher Ludlow Life-boat of this station was enabled to render valuable assistance to the brigantine Richard Thompson, of Belfast, which had •gone on Dungarvan Bar during a fresh breeze at S.S.W. The sea broke...
Left–Right: The lifeboat Alexandra now welcomes guests as a B&B; Work inderway on the Manchester and Salford restoration; the Manchester and Salford’s naming ceremony in 1924 - View image in PDF
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When the acht Melfort went aground in Derby Haven, Isle of Man. on May 17. 1981.
coastguards successfully took off one man bv breeches buoy while two crew members from Port St Mary's Arun stood by the lifeboat's Y... - View image in PDF
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APRIL 22ND. - CAISTER, NORFOLK. A message was received from the Winterton coastguard at 12.50 in the afternoon that a steamer appeared to be aground on North Caister Shoal about two miles from the coastguard station. A moderate...
THE above well-known motto of the British "Royal Marines " has been nobly illustrated by the deeds of that dis- tinguished corps in every part of the globe, and wherever, on land or sea, its services have been required, its famous...
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Tees mouth, and Redcar, Yorkshire.— At 6.40 in the evening of the 23rd of May, 1948, the South Gare coastguard reported both to Teesmouth and Redcar that a rowing boat, with three boys on board, was in difficulties near broken water...
At eight in the morning of 20th October the No. 2 Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Matthew Middlewood was launched in a moderate, but increasing, N.N.E. gale, with a heavy sea, as the motor fishing coble Brittania, of Flamborough, had not...
BIDEFORD.—A new life-boat 34 feet long, and fitted to row either with six oars singlebanked, or twelve short oars double-banked, has been placed at Appledore, near Bideford, in lieu of a smaller one previously there. The cost of the boat was...
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