ILB DAMAGED BY CASUALTY A MESSAGE was received at 7.05 p.m. on 3rd October, 1971, at Mumbles, Glamorganshire, that a man was probably marooned in a boat in Mumbles Bay. While investigating this report, the Coastguard sighted red flares 13...
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, and Barry Dock, Glamorganshire.—On the night of the 23rd December the Greek steamer Michalis Poutous, of Piraeus, bound light from Rouen to Barry Dock, ran on to the rocks in Bridgwater bay, near Burnham. She...
NEW BRIGHTON.—On the arrival of the steam ferry boat Thistle from Liverpool on the morning of the 27th January, the master reported that a vessel was ashore on Taylor's Bank. The coxswain of the steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland was...
NORTH BERWICK.—The schooner Oberscew, from Dychling for Burntisland, laden with esparto grass, stranded on the rocks at Seacliff Point during a strong E.N.E.
breeze, a very rough sea and a thick fog on the 29th March. A...
APRIL 29TH. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND, AND SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. At 11.30 at night a message was received at Cullercoats from the Blyth coastguard that a destroyer was in need of help at the entrance to the Tyne. A strong westnorth- west...
In a candid letter, sailor and RNLI supporter John Sinclair explains why he had to be rescued twice in the early hours of 22 March
'I anchored my 6m yacht Blue Dragon in Moelfre Bay...
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BROUGHTY FERRY.—At one o'clock on the morning of the 18th November, the pilot-cutter No. 2 of Dundee, dragged its anchor and stranded on Abertay Sands.
Heeling over until it lay broadside to the gale, the vessel...
Principal event in Lyme Regis lifeboat week's spectacular programme last July was the first national hang-kite flying championship.. - View image in PDF
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serving of record and worthy of imitation, has been recently made known to the public through the newspapers of the day :— At a meeting of the weekly board of the Gene- ral Hospital at Nottingham, on the 19th May,...
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On the 20th July news was received from the coastguard that a small speed-boat appeared to be in distress about three miles W.S.W.
from Bill Tower look-out. The occu- pants were waving a coat or flag. The motor life-boat...