JANUARY 11TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY, and PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. During the afternoon information was given by the coastguard to both stations that vessels had been torpedoed or mined six miles west of Rhoscolyn. The Holyhead motor...
A ship was seen with a signal of distress flying about half a mile to the eastward of this place on the 11th Jan., and the Life-boat at once proceeded off to her through a heavy ground sea, when she was found to be a Norwegian vessel of 134...
To JOHN STOREY, after serving 44 years as a member of the Crew of the Newbiggin Life-boat, a Life-boatman's Certificate.
To GEORGE McLEOD, on his retirement, after serving 5 years as Coxswain of the Lossiemouth...
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Aground in a storm THE NOTORIOUS North Scroby Sands, off the Norfolk coast, near Great Yarmouth, claimed another victim on the night of November 18/19, 1986, when the rig tender Seaforth Conqueror ran aground there in a south-south-westerly...
LXVIII. HARWICH.—The Springwett, 45 feet by 11 feet, 12 oars.
HARWICH, standing on the extremity of a tongue of land or narrow peninsula pro- jecting into the estuary of the rivers Stour and Orwell, is said to have risen...
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Eleven lifeboats in biggest ever Cardigan Bay searchCrew from nine lifeboat stations were united in a search for a missing power boat at Cardigan Bay. The Coastguard coordinated an extensive search involving 11 lifeboats, a rescue helicopter...
WHITBY. — The fishing-cobles Lady Morris and Anne Elizabeth, of Whitby, which had gone out fishing in the morning of the 5th October, were reported at about 2 P.M. to be just outside the bar, their crews making signals by blowing their...
CRICCIETH.—At about 1 p.m. on the 18th June, the schooner Catherine Henry,of Aberystwyth, while going from Abersoch to Portmadoo, was overtaken by a strong N.W. to N.N.W. gale and a very rough sea, and was in a very dangerous position near...
Ex-Coxswain Patrick Murphy, of Newcastle, Co. Down, a gold medal holder, died on 28th January, 1969, at the age of 81. His first recorded service with the life-boats was in 1914, and in 1942 he won the gold medal for rescuing 39 men under...
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RETURNED SAFELY At i p.m. on I3th March, 1964, the lifeboat coxswain informed the honorary secretary that three local fishing vessels were at sea in deteriorating weather. The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 1.12 in a...