At 1 P.M. on the 21st December, during a gale from the N.E. with a tremendous sea, a vessel was observed on shore at Waxham. The No. 1 Life-boaf Good Hope was promptly manned and launched, but the water was too low to float her over the bank...
Seven fishing cobles went off early in the morning of the 6th April to their crab-pots, but when the time came for their returning, the entrance to the harbour was very dangerous owing to the strong easterly sea and the outset of the tide....
Whitby, Yorkshire.—Early on the morning of the 15th April the local motor fishing boats Prosperity, Progress, Endeavour, Flying Spray and Success put out to fish. A nasty sea was running. Later on it grew worse and broke heavily on the bar....
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At 5.15 in the evening, on the 81 st of January, 1951, a message from the village of Bayble came through the Garrabost Post Office that a fishing boat was in difficulties off Bayble Head. Another fishing boat...
As was reported in the December, 1967, issue of The Life-boat Mr. Robert Jefford, a member of the IRB crew at Lyme Regis, and Miss Estelle Butler, the youngest member of the local ladies' life-boat guild, after their marriage left the... - View image in PDF
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Stranded off Skerries Skerries Atlantic 75 Rockabill was launched at 9.44pm on 5 November 2005 to the aid of 13 Latvian winkle pickers who were stranded on Colt Island off Skerries, Co. Dublin, when the boat due to collect them suffered...
MARCH 19TH. - CLOVELLY, AND ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At 3.10 A.M. a message from the coastguard, Hartland Point, was received at Clovelly that a steamer was on fire six miles north of the point. A whole W.S.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy...
On the 3rd March fourteen of the Newbiggin fishing-boats which had ventured out, being overtaken by a strong wind and a high sea, were in great danger. At 11 A.M. the Life-boat was launched and rendered valuable assistance to the boats, all...
A VIVID account of the famous launch of the Lynmouth life-boat in 1899 after she had been transported over Exmoor is included in Exmoor Wan- derings by E. 11. Delderfield (Raleigh Press, Exmouth, 5s.)..
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On 24th August, 1969, the lifeboat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched to the help of the motor fishing vessel Jaroma. A full account of this service, for which special awards were granted, will appear in the March number of...