Yacht given tow WHEN a man on the shore reported seeing a yacht driven aground, the Dunmore East, Co. Waterford, lifeboat put out on May 4.
She was the lifeboat Dunleary II, on temporary duty at the station, and she slipped...
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 7.20 on the even- ing of the 16th of September, 1952, the coastguard telephoned a report from the North Foreland Golf Club that a cabin-cruiser had fired a red Verey light half a mile off North...
Wick, Caithness-shire. At noon on the 6th of September, 1960, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a local fishing boat needed help ten miles south-east of Wick. The life- boat was not launched immediately as all the local...
Brothers and stations unite When Red Bay lifeboat crew were paged, there was no immediate threat to life for the couple on the yacht, Chtoe. Yet at Red Bay station brothers Tom and Paddy McLaughlin remember thinking: 'It was blowing a...
The Branch has received a donation of £10 10s. Od.
from Dr. J. Gerard-Pearse, owner of the yacht Hope, and the three men who were on board with him when the yacht was rescued by the Weymouth Motor Life-boat on the 8th...
Blyth, Northumberland. At 8.40 on the evening of the 30th of September, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was dragging her anchor one mile south of the Sow and Pig buoy. At 8.54 the life-boat City of Bradford...
St. Ives, Cornwall. At 10.5 on the evening of the 17th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Taiseer, which was anchored at the entrance to St.
Ives harbour, was making distress...
Lerwick, Shetlands - At 10.58 p.m.
on 8th May, 1967, it was reported that the motor fishing vessel Day Dawn of Lerwick had broken down off Bard Head, Bressay, and was in danger of being driven on to the rocks. The life-boat...
Called out twice FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1987, found Scotland's Banffshire coast in the grip of force 6-7 east-south-easterly winds and rough seas, with overcast skies and rain squalls adding to the wintry scene.
At 1939 the...
High and dry on the Goodwins RAMSGATE HONORARY SECRETARY Was informed by Dover Straits Coastguard at 2025 on Thursday, September 11, 1975, that, following a number of reports of red flares sighted over the Goodwin Sands, Walmer lifeboat had...