Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. — At 2.40 in the morning of the 28th of June, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat, which was at anchor in Clanyard Bay, appeared to be in diffi- culties, and the motor life-boat Jeanie Speirs was...
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. On the 27th of June, 1958, while the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was at sea carrying out machinery trials, the coxswain received a message from the pilot boat British Angler that a...
Troon, Ayrshire. At 11.49 on the morning of the 5th of February, 1961, the harbour master at Irvine informed the coxswain that two men were stranded on a beacon at the entrance to Irvine harbour. In the absence of the honorary secretary the...
Beaumaris, Anglesey - At 3.21 p.m.
on 3rd September, 1966, news was received that a yacht, whose engine had failed, was being driven on to the rocks at Puffin island. The life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was launched...
The 60th anniversary of one of the RNLI’s most tragic days was marked at Arbroath in October.
Six crewmen died when the lifeboat Robert Lindsay was struck by huge waves close to the harbour and capsized on 27 October 1953....
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REDCAR.—On the 25th September at 10 • 30P.M., the schooner Psyche of Swansea went ashore on the rocks off Kedcar, and the Life-boat Burton-on-Trent was launched to her assistance. Hear-Admiral KOBERTSON, Assistant Inspector of Lifeboats to...
BRIGHTON.—At about 9 P.M. on the 6th January, when it was blowing hard from S. by E., the barque Ida, of Glasgow, bound from Havre to Pensacola, drove ashore on the beach at this town. A communication was established with the rocket...
NEWBIGGIN.—On the 8th November, a very heavy gale from the N.E. sprang up at about 10 A.M., and several fishing cobles which had gone out at 4 o'clock, when it was quite calm, were in very great danger. At 1 P.M. the storm increased to...