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Five Pile Drivers

Date: November 1915

Volume: 23

Issue: 258

At 1.30 A.M.

on the 19th March, during a whole N.N.E. gale and very heavy sea, signals of distress were seen from five Pile Drivers which were moored in the River Humber. The Life-boat Charles Burton was launched and...

Wading into Danger

Date: Summer 2009

Volume: 61

Issue: 588

In the early hours of the morning, a man clung on for dear life, shivering in the near-freezing, fast-flowing river. Would rescuers be able to reach him in time? Rory Stamp reports

It was 10 January 2009 and a man was seen...

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Sjofna, of Oslo (1)

Date: 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1944

NOVEMBER 23RD. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL, AND CLOVELLY, DEVON.

At 2.30 in the morning the Padstow coastguard telephoned that news had been received from the naval authorities at Falmouth that a ship was ashore at Knap Head, near...

Ann and Elizabeth

Date: February 1901

Volume: 18

Issue: 199

NEWQUAY, CARDIGANSHIRE.—On the morning of the 7th November, while a whole gale was blowing from the N,, the dandy Ann and Elizabeth, of Cardigan, homeward bound in ballast, was seen drifting towards the beach. Efforts were made to save the...

A Tender

Date: Summer 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 481

Capsized tender ON THE AFTERNOON of Tuesday December 22, 1981, Derek Scott, coxswain of The Mumbles lifeboat, was at his home overlooking the seafront when, at 1555, he heard cries for help. Scanning thebay with his binoculars he saw two men...

None (3)

Date: December 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 370

Walmer.Kent.—On the 6th of August, 1954, two boys walked round the cliff from St. Margaret's to Kingsdown, but were trapped by the tide at Kingsdown. They both tried to swim round the cliff, but one of them got into difficulties. His...

A Canoe

Date: June 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 412

SOLDIERS RESCUED Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 2.23 a.m.

on i9th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two soldiers were missing from a canoe east of St. Govans Head and at 2.38 the Tenby life-boat...

None (6)

Date: September 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 405

COASTGUARD, HELICOPTER AND LIFE-BOAT SEARCH Flamborough, Yorkshire. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 2nd June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen over the cliffs. A helicopter had landed on...

Fishing Boats (1)

Date: June 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 368

Whitby, Yorkshire.—During the morn- ing of the 24th of March, 1954, a north-easterly gale overtook the local fishing fleet of twelve motor boats and six small cobles. At 7.32 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepzvorth, was launched. There was a...

Argo

Date: November 1903

Volume: 18

Issue: 210

CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE.—The barque Argo, of Fredrikstad, was totally wrecked near Macharioch on the 27th February, but happily nine of her crew were saved. The crew of the Life-boat at Southend were assembled, but as it was very doubtful...