FEBRUARY 5TH and 6TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. At 9 A.M. information was received through the coastguard that a vessel was ashore south of Barra Island, and the motor life-boat Lloyd’s was launched at 10 A.M. Half a gale was blowing from...
CRITICISMS have been expressed in recent years as to the great cost of the construction of the Institution's Life- boats. It would seem, from these, criticisms, that the public do not fully: understand either the nature of Life-boat{...
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JANUARY 9TH. - HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.
At about 10 A.M. the Hooton R.A.F. aerodrome asked the coastguard to search the banks with their telescope for signs of a missing aeroplane, which had not returned the previous evening....
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 1.10 early on the morning of the 8th of June, 1955, a man at Portmagee telephoned that the trawler Ross Corr, of Dublin, had been due at Portmagee at eight o'clock the night before, but had not...
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. — About 4.30 in the afternoon of the 2nd of December, 1948, the coastguard tele- phoned a message received from Cross- bost Post Office that a motor fishing vessel, the Triumph, of Stornoway, appeared to be in a...
Newcastle, Co. Down.—At 12.30 in the afternoon of the 2nd of April, 1950, the Cranfield coastguard telephoned that the Haulbowline lighthouse was flying a flag asking for help; and shortly after a message came that it was sig-...
At 12.45 p.m. on 20th August, 1969, it was learnt that there was an injured man at Ballard head and that another man was stranded on the cliff. At 12.56 the life-boat R.L.P.
was launched in a fresh south westerly wind. It...
A CAREFUL or interested reader of the article in THE LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL for last November, on the " Wreck Register and Chart for the year ended June 30th, 1884," cannot but be struck by the me- lancholy fact shown by the statistics,...
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APRIL 7TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
Two men in a dinghy were missing, but nothing could be found. A donation was made to the Institution by Wrekin College and a gift from it was made by the Institution to the life-boat crew in...
Four rescued EARLY ON FRIDAY, November 12, 1982, the 17ft 6in fishing boat Lady Theresa was seen leaving Redcar and, as it was a rough morning, a watch was kept on her from the lifeboathouse. At 1213 a passer by informed Coxswain David...