About 1.20 P.M. on the 29th July the Coxswain received a message from the Coastguard at Tor- quay that a motor boat was in distress off Ivy Cove. A very strong squally wind was blowing from the W.S.W., with a rough sea. The Motor Life-boat...
Sheringham and Wells, Norfolk.—At 6.20 on the evening of the 8th of December, 1954, a hotel porter told the Sheringham life-boat station that he had seen red rockets off Weybourne.
Four minutes later the Cromer coast- guard...
On the morning of the 24th February the dredger Sisyphus, of Dublin, which was anchored in the harbour, signalled for help. A strong to whole E.S.E. gale was blowing, a very heavy sea was running and it was snowing. The motor life-boat...
Troon, Ayrshire.—At 10 P.M. on the 19th February, 1938, the harbour look-out reported that a fishing boat had not returned as expected. Later a mast-light was seen, and as it was stationary, the motor life-boat Sir David Richmond of Glasgow...
A dramatic rescue incident off Shoreham on 25th June, 1967, when 21 sailing boats capsized in a sudden squall.. - View image in PDF
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The Newquay life-boat station was established in 1860. Its life-boats have been launched fifty- one times on service and have rescued 103 lives. It has the steepest launching slipway on our coasts, with a gradient of 1 in 2f, and the... - View image in PDF
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/ ( j . Notes of the Quarter, by Patrick Howarth 183 To all lifeboat supporters: messages from His Grace the Duke of Atholl, Chairman of the Committee of Management, and Rear Admiral Wilfred i.
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CAMPBELTOWN.—On the 1st February the wind, which had been blowing strongly all day from W., increased to a strong gale towards the evening, at times blowing with hurricane force. At about 9 P.M. the coxswain of the Life-boat reported that a...
ONE of the most unusual reunions in the history of the Isle of Wight life-boat service took place in October when the directors of the Isle of Wight County Press entertained nineteen veterans of the old pulling and sailing life-boats to a...
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DINGHY'S CREW SAVED At 9.40 p.m. on 3ist July, 1964, the coxswain noticed that a sailing dinghy was being driven on to the lee shore of Ireland's Eye by a near gale force westsouth- westerly wind. It was low...