Eleven lifeboats in biggest ever Cardigan Bay searchCrew from nine lifeboat stations were united in a search for a missing power boat at Cardigan Bay. The Coastguard coordinated an extensive search involving 11 lifeboats, a rescue helicopter...
AUGUST 28TH. - ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE.
At 2.30 in the afternoon the coastguard reported a fishing boat, off Fifeness, making heavy weather. A south-easterly gale was blowing, the sea was very rough, and wind and sea were...
Broughty Ferry's Arun class Spirit of Tayside was called out to stand by the Granton-based tug Defiant aground on the Gaa Sands on 13 May 1988. Although the wind was only Force 4 from the SE a 6ft to 8ft swell was running, and...
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 11.40 on the night of the 6th of June, 1956, the Dingle Coast Life-saving Service tele- phoned that the fishing boat Carraig Doun, of Dublin, had engine trouble one mile west of Ventry harbour and was being driven...
South Eastern Division Injured climber SWANAGE COASTGUARD requested the launch of Swanage lifeboat at 1710 on Saturday June 16, 1979, to go to the help of a seriously injured cliff climber at Ragged Rocks, some quarter of a mile west of...
With his series of books telling the stories of different life-boat stations Grahame Farr is making a unique contribution to the history of the life-boat service. Wreck and Rescue in the Bristol Channel (Part II): The Story of the Welsh...
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The trawler Armana, of Fleetwood, was going out to the fishing grounds on the llth January, when she ran aground .on a submerged rock. The weather was fine and there was no wind, but the motor life-boat Lloyd's was launched at 1.45 P.M.,...
Scarborough, Yorkshire On the afternoon of the 24th February several local fishing boats were at sea. Theweather got bad and all except the Launch Out and Progress returned to harbour. By 4 P.M. conditions were very bad, and a big sea was...
At 2.10 P.M. on the 17th July, during a moderate N.W. gale with a heavy ground swell, a fishing vessel named the Elate, belonging to Port St. Mary, was trying to make the inner harbour, and in so doing fouled the breakwater with her jibboom....
On the 2nd October the Life-boat Mary, on this station, was taken off by a volunteer crew to assist four fishing-cobles, which, while making for the harbour, were in much danger on account of the very heavy sea running round the pier-head....