HEARING FROM the Marine Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) Shannon at 2106 on January 16 that Jadestar Glory was ashore, possibly on Roney Rock, the honorary secretary Arklow alerted the crew while trying to get further...
GOD help our men at sea! In firelit, pictured rooms, 'mid wine and flowers, And gleesome company.
The wild winds awe us, in our blithest hours, To sigh this prayer; And, lonely, with clenched hands, at night 'tis...
Category: Poetry
Fishing boat sinking ROSSLARE HARBOUR OFFICE informed Storeman R. Walshe at 1130 on Thursday December 7, 1978, that a Swedish cargo vessel had relayed a distress signal from a fishing boat sinking off Tuskar Rock. Maroons were fired at 1135,...
MAY 3RD. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 2.35 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that the North Goodwin Lightship had reported a vessel aground on the North-East Goodwin Sands. The motor life-boat Mary Scott, on temporary duty at the station, was...
. . . and (below) Jimmy Savile at the helm of the Atlantic 21 on show with a 'crew' of Scouts.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
LAST November Matthew Clarkson, second coxswain of the Lytham life- boat, disappeared while shrimping in the Ribble estuary. The crew of the Lytham life-boat received £2 10s. each A* in rewards from the Institution for searching for...
Category: Services
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 6.57 on the evening of the 9th of May, 1958, the Foreland coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was firing red rockets two miles south of Ventnor pier.
Eight minutes later the life...
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 29th of September, 1960, the Royal Air Force detachment at Tenby requested the use of the life- boat Henry Comber Brown to tow in one of their air-sea rescue launches, which had broken...
WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.—On the evening of the 15th April one of the most exciting scenes ever remembered was witnessed at Whitby. The fishing fleet had left port early in the morning, the weather then being generally favourable.
Holy Island and North Sunderland, Northumberland.
—Early on the morning of the 28th February the coastguard reported to the Holy Island life-boat station that a vessel was in distress in Goswick Bay. A north-easterly...