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Rowsley
AUGUST 3RD. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At 10.2 A.M. the coastguard reported a trawler under the cliffs at Skirza Head sounding an S.O.S. There was thick fog and a gentle S.S.W. breeze was blowing with a slight sea. The motor...
Teymar
Eleven lifeboats in biggest ever Cardigan Bay searchCrew from nine lifeboat stations were united in a search for a missing power boat at Cardigan Bay. The Coastguard coordinated an extensive search involving 11 lifeboats, a rescue helicopter...
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Almeria
SHEERING BADLY Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 6.20 p.m. on 3rd May, 1964, the assistant secretary asked the second coxswain, in the absence of the coxswain, to launch the life-boat The Lilly Wainwright to go to the assistance of a motor...
My Lass
Tow line passed in SW gale Hastings - South East Division On Thursday, 24 March 1988 the Station Honorary Secretary at Hastings, John Heyes, heard on VHP channel 6 that the fishing vessel My Lass of Rye had broken her propeller shaft two...
Lavinia
Weymouth, Dorset.—On the^afternoon of the 3rd October the coastguard reported that a smallJyacht about fourmiles N.W. of Portland Bill was firing distress signals, and the motor life-boat William and Clara Ryland was launched at 2.10 P.M. A...
The S.S. Vassilis
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 5.40 on the afternoon of the 25th of August, 1955, the Coast Life-saving Service at Came rang- up to say that a steamer had gone aground at Collough Rock near Carnesore Point and had sig- nalled for help....
The Life-Boats of the United Kingdom
LVIII. SUNDERLAND.—The Good Templar, 30 feet by 8 feet, 8 oars.
LIX. Ditto.—The Mary, 30i feet by 8J feet, 10 oars.
LX. Ditto.—The Florence Nightingale, 33 feet by 8 feet, 10...
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Uncle George
ENGINE DIFFICULTIES At 5 p.m. on 30th August, 1964, the watchman on the east pier told the coxswain that a motor launch had broken down in the smooth seas just off the Quern buoy. At 5.10 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out into a...