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RNLI SOS day 2010 is on 29 January, so now is the time to really get planning.
Burns night celebrations are a popular SOS activity for those in Scotland (or those who just wish they were in Scotland!), and Talisker whisky...
Category: Articles
H.M.S. Witherington
APRIL 29TH. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND, AND SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. At 11.30 at night a message was received at Cullercoats from the Blyth coastguard that a destroyer was in need of help at the entrance to the Tyne. A strong westnorth- west...
The S.S. Celt
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 12.40 early on the morning of the 6th of May, 1954, the Walney Island coastguard telephoned that a "Mayday" distress message had been received from the S.S. Celt, of Glasgow, ten miles south of St. Bees Head....
Life-Boat House, Wembley. (Interior.)
Life-Boat House Wembley (Interior). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Scarborough Motor Life-Boat
The Scarborough Motor Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Small Boat Named Joan
The motor life- boat City of Bradford I, on relief duty at this station, was launched at 8.25 A.M. on the 14th May, as the second motor mechanic had seen a small boat in danger about three and a half miles S.S.W. of the look-out. A strong...
The Converted Ship's Boat Permit
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 1.0 in the afternoon on the 7th of August, 1951, the Formby coastguard reported that a cutter rigged yacht was off Formby Point. Twenty minutes later he said conditions were bad and her sails had been damaged. At 1...
The Converted Ship's Boat Sun
Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 10.10 on the morning of the 29th of August, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that a man at Pittenweem had reported that a small boat was drifting towards the shore east of Pittenweem. It was low water when the...