Galway Bay. On the evening of the 21st of June, 1960, the island medical officer asked if the life-boat would take a sick child to Rossaveal on the main- land, where an ambulance was waiting to drive the child to hospital. As there was no...
Coaster on fire A TELEPHONE CALL from Belfast Pilot Station to HM Coastguard at 1300 on Tuesday April 10 reported a fire aboard the Finnish coaster Inio of Helsinki about a mile and a half north east of Mew Island. A firefighting tug,...
On the 20th March the same boat pro- ceeded out to the Noordster, a Norwegian barque, at about midnight: it blowing hard at the time, with squalls of snow and hail. A prior attempt to board the Noordster in White's Life-boat had failed,...
HARWICH.—At 6 P.M. on the 25th April, it was reported that a schooner was ashore on the Cork Sand. The Life-boat Springwell was immediately launched, and arrived at the Sand at about 8 P.M. The stranded vessel proved to be the Henrietta, of...
At 1.30 A.M. on the 17th December a telephone message was received, stating that a vessel was ashore in Hoy Sound, and that assistance was required. The crew of the Motor Life-boat John A. Say were assembled, and the Life-boat proceeded to...
Ramsgate., Kent.—At 5.15 on the evening of the 15th of June, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a motor cruiser, flying a distress signal, seemed to be drifting. At 5.22 the life-boat Mary Scott, on temporary duty at the station, left her...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 2.34 on the afternoon of the 24th of March, 1960, the district superintendent of Trinity House at Great Yarmouth informed the honorary secretary that the Trinity House vessel Triton was unable to...
MARCH 27TH. - WESTON-SUPER-MARE, SOMERSET. At 8.15 P.M. it was learned from the officer commanding H.M.S. Birnbeck, that the motor vessel with a crew of four was ashore off Howe Rock, in Berrow Bay, and would foul the coast defences if she...
The Fourth Part of the World
By Toby Lester
Review by Peter Bradley
In ancient times the Earth, placed at the centre of the cosmos, was known to have three parts: Asia, Europe and Africa....
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‘As well as a constant resolution to save lives at sea, there has been constant evolution in how we do it,’ said RNLI Chairman Charles-Hunter Pease at our AGM on 22 May.
It was a day of looking...
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