Fire HM COASTGUARD INFORMED the honorary secretary of Cardigan ILB station at 1224 on Wednesday, June 16, that a vessel was on fire four miles north of Cardigan Head. There was moderate visibility and a light westerly...
LERWICK'S 27 HOURS' SEARCH.
Lerwick, and Aith, Shetlands.—4th October, 1939. In the morning a Royal Air Force aeroplane came down on the sea about twenty-five miles N.E.
of the N.E. corner of...
Fox. Vellum service certificates have been presented to Crew Members Christopher E. Fox and David Wainwright.
Western Division On the bar THE SERVICE BY FWLLHELi lifeboat and Criccieth ILB to the yacht Zircon during the...
Category: Services
Angle, Pembrokeshire.—On the afternoon of the 6th September the coast watcher at St. Ann's Head telephoned that a Royal Air Force flying-boat was making SOS signals. A moderate S.E. gale was blowing, and the weather was thick. The sea...
JANUARY 30TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
The No. 1 life-boat H. F. Bailey was at Gorleston, where she had put in after a service. While she was there news was received that a vessel was being attacked by enemy aircraft in Yarmouth...
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands, and The Lizard, Cornwall.—At eight o'clock on the morning of the 25th of March, 1957, it was reported that the motor vessels Corallo, of Trieste, and Nopal Branco, of Oslo, had been in collision and that...
A canoeist comes ashore at Dugort Pier after a rescue by the Achill lifeboat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
LOUD beat the treacherous breakers on the shore; The boiling waves like mountains rise on high, Seeming to vent their wild, tumultuous roar To the dark pall that erstwhile was the sky.
The billows,...
Category: Poetry
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex - At 2 p.m. on 25th June, 1967, news wasreceived that the local sailing club's rescue boats might not be able to cope if the sudden squall which had capsized 21 dinghies in the harbour got any worse.
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