DF bearing OBAN COASTGUARD reported to the deputy launching authority of Islay lifeboat station at 0216 on Wednesday February 16 that the fishing vessel Girl Norma had broken down to the west of Jura.
The night was dark and...
LLANDUDNO, CARNARVONSHIRE.—At 1.45 P.M. on the 1st January a signal of distress was shown by two men in a fishing-boat two miles off from land in Llandudno Bay. The men, father and son, had gone out to their fishing lines and were overtaken...
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MOELPRE, ANGLESEY.—The schooner Edith, of Newry, bound from Liverpool for Drogheda, co. Louth, with coal, was lying in the outer roads while a whole gale was blowing from N.N.W., accompanied by a very heavy sea and thick weather, on the 25th...
FEBRUARY 5TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE.
At 9.30 P . M . a message was received from the coastguard that a Greek steamer had stranded in a position thought to be south of Bardsey Island. Half an hour later a second...
Beaumaris, Gwynedd February 10 Blackpool, Lancashire January 2, 30 (twice), 31 and February 3 Brighton, East Sussex February 6 Broughty Ferry, Angus December 24 Conwy, Gwynedd January 19 and February 4 Flint, Clwyd February 23 Great Yarmouth...
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A donation of £25,000 was recently presented to John Clugston, chairman of the South Bank Committee Humber lifeboat appeal by Stuart Pettifor, managing director of British Steel (Sections, Plates and Commercial Steels) on board the... - View image in PDF
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Deb Graham, daughter of Exmouth coxswain Keith Graham, helped mark a special occasion when she went aboard Exmouth's Trent class lifeboat during the traditional Christmas Day swim off Exmouth beach last year.
Deb, sadly... - View image in PDF
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New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 5.25 in the afternoon of the 28th of January, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was sounding her whistle for help, and the No. 2 life-boat, Edmund and Mary Robinson, was launched at...
The services of this valuable life-boat were again called into requisition on the evening of the 23rd December under the following circumstances:—A light being observed on the South Bank while it was blowing fresh from the S.W., the...
On the 27th May, while a strong gale was blowing from the N.N.E., with a very heavy sea and thick weather, a vessel was seen making for the Cockle Gat. Her sails were blowing about, and when the weather cleared a flag was observed in the...