Sennen Cove, Cornwall; and St.
Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 8.12 on the evening of the 28th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the Sennen Cove honorary secretary that the Southern Rescue Coordination Centre at Ply- mouth...
PATIENT TRANSFERRED Kilmore, Co. Wexford. At 9.10 a.m.
on 14th October, 1964, the Irish Lights Office requested the use of the life-boat to transfer a sick man from the Barrels lightvessel. The sea was smooth and it was two...
Kilmore, Wexford - At 11.15 p.m.
on 8th September, 1966, a small pleasure boat with one man on board was reported overdue. The life-boat Cecil Paine was launched at 11.30. It was high water.
She found the...
AUGUST 9TH. - WHITEHILLS, BANFFSHIRE.
Two small tugs had broken away from a larger tug which had been towing them, and were driving ashore, but by the time the life-boat arrived they were ashore and the only man aboard had...
On April 4th. the Institution returned the Belgian motor life-boat "Ministere Anscele" which was picked up derelict in the English Channel in September 1940, and placed at the Institution's disposal by the Belgian Government...
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REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.—At about 10 A.H., on the 25th June, a rowing boat, which had gone out early in the morning to gather mussels in the Tees, attempted to make for Redcar. Her crew of a man and two boys were in danger as the wind had...
MARGATE AND CLACTON-ON-SEA.—On the morning of the 26th January, while a strong gale was blowing from N.N.E.
accompanied by a heavy sea, the Margate boatmen observed a large vessel apparently in dangerously close proximity...
Search success AT 1820 ON FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1987, Tyne Tees Coastguards were alerted by the mother of one of two men aboard the Hartlepool-based fishing boat Sea Fox that the vessel was six hours overdue at the east coast...
The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the Rt. Rev. Dr David Steel visited Oban station last July, and went to sea in the Maclachlan ILB.. - View image in PDF
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As reported on page 108, 46-foot 9-inch and 47-foot Watson class life-boats are being fitted with two selfinflatable bags which will bring them back to the upright position if they should capsize once. The pictures, beginning left with a... - View image in PDF
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