MARCH 13TH - 15TH. - CRESSWELL, NORTHUMBERLAND. On the 5th February the S.S. Empire Breeze had stranded on the Bondicar Rocks, and the Amble lifeboat had rescued her crew. On the 13th March the Empire Breeze was refloated and taken in tow...
Aberdeen's Arun class lifeboat was on service for almost seven hours in gale force winds when the fishing vessel Ceol-na-Mara sprang a leak some 30 miles from the station.The Arun, BP Forties, was launched at 0430 on 12 February 1995...
St. Peter Port, Guernsey - At 8 p.m.
on 29th August, 1966, local residents saw a yacht in difficulties in Pembroke bay.
At 8.20 the life-boat Lloyd's, on temporary duty at the station, proceeded in a...
IN a dock of the Exhibition grounds at the Fisheries Exhibition at Bergen—it is held in the Nygaard Park, which runs down to a river—there are four Life- boats. They are not to be known for Life-boats at a glance, being shaped and rigged in...
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FEBRUARY 20TH. - TYNEMOUTH, AND CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 8.13 in the morning the honorary secretary at Tynemouth had a telephone call from the Port War Signal Station that one ofH.M. trawlers had struck a mine about...
ON the 14th of August, 1958, a disastrous accident occurred when a K.L.M.
Constellation aircraft crashed in the Atlantic more than 80 miles from the west-coast of Ireland. Ninety-nine people lost their lives. Life-boats...
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THE Institution is at present engaged on a major programme of construction and modernization, and at the time of going to press there are no fewer than 17 new life-boats in various stages of construc- tion. The total cost of this boat...
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Since experimental trials in '63 the ILBs have proved so successful that there are now over 100 of them in regular use as well as the 135 conventional lifeboats. Last year, these tough, nearly indestructable craft, were called out 1,291...
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AT 1.8 on the afternoon of the 7th March, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Cloughey life-boat station in County Down, Mr.
S. C. B. Bryans, that the Dutch coaster Frida Blokzijl of 270 tons was...
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CADGWITH, CORNWALL.—At midnight, on the 13th January, 1868, a light being observed on or near the Vrogue Rocks, in a strong wind from the W.S.W., and a heavy ground sea, the Western Commercial Traveller life-boat was despatched to as-...
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