The weather was especially unforgiving back in the Winter, whether it caused inland flooding or offshore accidents. As you’ll read in our rescue pages, it led to challenging times for our Flood Rescue Team and lifeboat...
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The steam trawler John Meikle, of North Shields, when homeward bound from fishing on the 13th October, stranded half a mile to the north of Newbiggin Point, in a very heavy fog, a moderate S.E. gale and rough sea. Information of the casualty...
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Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—Owing to sudden dense fog and heavy rain on the 30th January the Clogher Head fishing fleet, which was about eleven miles N.E. of Port Oriel, made for home.
All boats except the Primrose, with the...
Lee shore FOLLOWING THE SIGHTING of a red flare in Dovercourt Bay by the BR sea freight liner. Thames Coastguard telephonedthe honorary secretary of Walton and Frinton lifeboat station and the deputy launching authority of Harwich lifeboat...
Engine failed MEMBERS OF REDCAR ILB CREW, Standing by in the boathouse on Thursday morning, June 10, sighted, at 1000, a red flare beyond Saltscar Buoy some three miles east of the ILB station.
The ILB was launched at 1005...
Knife to see you? •opte in rroubte are usually pleased to see a lifeboat, but not so for a man ^B to evade the police in Heme Bay in August. Holding a knife, he cycled, onto the sea and swam out. The man, who was not training for a...
Rhyl, Flintshire, and Hoylake, Cheshire.— —At 3.2 in the morning of the 7th December, 1948, the Rhyl coastguard telephoned that a flare had been seen six miles north-east by north of the pier, and the motor life-boat The Gordon Warren was...