MARCH 7TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 9.45 P.M.
a message was received from the Gorleston coastguard that the South Knoll Light-vessel had reported a ship on fire two miles N.E.
of the...
New BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. About eleven in the morning of the 2nd of August, 1944, two men in the motor fishing boat Maud, of New Brighton, were fishing six miles eastsouth- east of the Bar Lightship. A light south-west wind was blowing, with a...
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THURSO, N.B.—During a severe gale of wind from the W., veering to N.E., between 7 and 8 o'clock on the evening of the 21st March, the schooners Volant, of Wick, and Queen, of Inverness, which were both lying far out in the roadstead,...
BARMOUTH, NORTH WALES.-—At 10.25 M. on Sunday, the 14th of February, the Jories-GM Life-boat put off to the assistance of the ship Magnolia, of Yarmouth, N.S., bound from Norfolk, Virginia, for Liverpool, with a cargo of cotton, which had...
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Mike Floyd, Editor of THE LIFEBOAT, joins a crew preparing to take delivery of their new Mersey The lifeboat crew were about to haul a survivor aboard when an unmistakable siren broke into their ordered efforts.
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Eight saved from yacht dismasted and close to rocks in onshore galeThe coxswain of Blyth lifeboat, Keith Barnard, has been awarded the RNLI's Thanks of the Institution on Vellum for saving the lives of eight people from a dismasted yacht...
COBLE WAS ESCORTED Newbiggin, Northumberland. At 9.50 a.m. on 23rd October, 1964, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that the weather was becoming worse and that two cobles were still at sea. At 10.10 the life-boat Richard Ashley was...
On the 1st December, the coxswain of the North Briton life-boat, and 6 other men, with 2 horses, proceeded at midnight along the coast upwards of fcrar miles in the direction of Gramthorpe Haven, and there found a schooner on the sands, and...