From the coast near this i port, on the 2ud January, by the first light 1 of breaking day, the masts of a vessel were | observed looming faintly through the haze of a S.W. storm. It was presently ascer- tained that the vessel herself...
Dinghies capsize A NEAR GALE, south-south-westerly force 7, was blowing on the afternoon of Saturday July 26, 1986, when Mrs Helen Nicholson noticed that a number of sailing boats were in difficulty off Hook Lighthouse and Waterford...
Launches 26. Lives rescued 21.
ISLE OF WHITHORN, WIGTOWNSHIRE. At 3.8 in the afternoon of the 18th of January, l944, a report was received through the military and the coastguard that a Martinet aeroplane, which had been...
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More Lifeboats at Dunkirk In your Autumn issue lifeboat enthusiast Jeff Morris states that 19 lifeboats from the RNLI attended the evacuation of Dunkirk during 1940. He is right to say that 19 lifeboats went to Dunkirk but wrong in thus...
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DUNMORE EAST is a fishing port at the mouth of Waterford Harbour in southeastern Ireland, just off the busy shipping lanes leading from the Atlantic Ocean up St George's Channel and into the Irish Sea. The shore sweeps down to Hook Head...
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RYE.—On the morning of the 14th January, the brig Allison, of Whitby, stranded near Jury's. Gap during a strong S.S.W. wind and heavy sea. The crew were then in no danger, and it was hoped that the vessel would get off with the rising...
Saturday.—Life-boat Saturday — splendid institution—come now, you other chaps, fork out your subscriptions; Pee unfortunately left my parse at home (not that there's anything in it). Bat come, chuck 'em a copper—silver or gold will...
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A 'heady' tradition was upheld in double measure at Aberdeen in May when the maiden catch of the Shetland seine-net boat Evening Star was auctioned.
Traditionally, the buyer of the first box offish from a maiden...
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Landmark ruling - is it a ship?The personal watercraft (PWC), often known by the trade name of jetski, is an increasingly popular mode of water transport. Partly resembling a motorbike, a PWC is ridden in a similar way and comes with the...
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TEIGNMOUTH.—On the 14th October, at about 4.45 P.M., three fishing-boatswere seen to be making "_for the harbour.
A strong S.W. wind was blowing at the time, and a heavy sea was breaking on the bar, and as the water...