LIFESAVING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Newquay, Cornwall, will host the Rescue 2010 Lifesaving World Championships after a successful bid by Surf Life Saving Great Britain (SLSGB).
More than 5,000 competitors from 55 countries will...
Category: Articles
Fenit, Co. Kerry.—At 2.30 on the after- noon of the 1st of February, 1957, a message was received from Ballydavid that six men who were freeing the anchor chain of their motor vessel Libra had been blown ashore in their ship's boat and...
Eleven student pilots from Wexford Aero Club back home with their Beagle Pup aircraft after a gruelling day's sponsored relay flight round Ireland, with six crew changes. It was a complicated navigation exercise to test crew skills with... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
ABOUT one-fifteen in the morning of 24th October last a message came from the coastguard to the life-boat station at Moelfre, Anglesey, that a vessel was in distress N.N.E. of Point Lynas. A whole gale was blowing from north by east, and a...
Category: Services
Nov. 6TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. A small boat had lost her mast and sail, andwas drifting, but she managed to reach harbour without help. - Rewards, £4 19s. 6d..
MAY 26TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.
At 10.10 in the morning the police reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea opposite Cleveleys Hydro. There was a variable north-east wind and the sea calm.
At...
SEPTEMBER 3RD. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. A steamer had gone aground on the Mersey revetment, but refloated with the help of tugs. - Rewards, £6 18s..
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk.—At 8.16 on the morning of 12th of June, 1955, the Gorleston coastguard rang up the Great Yar- mouth and Gorleston life-boat station to say that a shrimp boat had broken down off the harbour...
On the morning of the 14th Novem- ber the coastguard telephoned to the coxswain that the steam trawler Georgette, of Grimsby, was ashore on Outer Bank, about three miles north of Winterton. She was bound home from the fishing grounds with a...
PADSTOW has the distinction of having carried out two services last year in which such skill and gallantry were shown in circumstances of great danger that the Institution has awarded its Bronze Medal in each case.
The...
Category: Medals