Overdue THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND motor fishing vessel Ard Carna put out from Greencastle, Lough Foyle, on Thursday April 28 to fish white fish. She had a crew of five and was expected back on the Friday or Saturday. At 2200 on Saturday April...
Yacht on bar THE AUXILIARY COASTGUARD On Watch at Penrhyn on Tuesday April 17 saw, at 1155, a small yacht under outboard engine with her mainsail up making for the River Teifi. It was a fine day with a clear sky and the sea in the bay was...
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Holyhead, Anglesey - At 10.41 p.m.
on i5th July, 1967, a message was received that the motor fishing vessel Coquetside of Conway had broken down with engine trouble eight miles west of the Skerries. At 10.53 tne life-boat...
BALCARY, KIRKCUDBRIGHT. — The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat establishment at Balcary Point, in Auchencairn Bay, on the coast of Kirkcudbright, which is considered to be an excellent position whence a Life- boat can...
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HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.—A vessel was observed by the Coastguard to be stranded on the East Hoyle Spit on the morning of the 6th March, and as the weather appeared to be somewhat threatening, and there being a nasty sea on the bank, it was decided...
LIFEBOAT CLASSIFIED TIME AND TIDE at your fingertips TIDEMASTER' PILOT • Quart accuracy • Guaranteed working depth 75ft • Clear luminous hands and batons • Automatic calendar • Quick set date change • Tide bezel' monitors tidal state...
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Rescue in the surf SILVER MEDAL A CALL CAME THROUGH to Tyne Tees Coastguard at 0101 on the morning of Saturday April 15, 1986, that a disabled fishing vessel, the 60ft La Morlaye, with three men on board, was in danger of going aground just...
SWANSEA.—The Harbour Commissioners at Swansea having transferred their life-boat establishment to the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, it has been completely renovated ; a new 10-oared boat and transporting carriage has been placed there, and...
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50 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, December 1940 issue Four Months of War The first four months of war, from 3rd September to the 31st December, have been the most crowded and hazardous in the whole history of the life-boat service...
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