Shortly after 9 A.M., on the 26th November, a telegram was received stating that a boat was being driven towards Arbroath, and suggesting that a look-out should be kept for her. A watch was accord- ingly set, and about a quarter of an hour...
Fishermen saved after 20 hours in ferocious blizzard It took a joint effort by the Mallaig and Kyle of Lochalsh lifeboats, RAF and coastguard helicopters and local fishermen to locate two friends who got lost while out whelking on 27...
During the 'open day' arranged by the Port of Liverpool branch in aid of the R.N.L.I., an interesting demonstration was given in which a model life-boat aided a model trawler on the boating lake at Hoylake.
The...
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Landmark ruling - is it a ship?The personal watercraft (PWC), often known by the trade name of jetski, is an increasingly popular mode of water transport. Partly resembling a motorbike, a PWC is ridden in a similar way and comes with the...
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Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—At 9.15 on the night of the 8th of April, 1952, the life-boat coxswain reported that four persons had gone to the Calf of Man in the motor boat Leprechaun during the day, and had not returned, and at 9.30 the life...
IN THICK FOG North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At noon on the 16th of July, 1947, with a very thick fog, the Seahouses coast- guard reported that he could hear men shouting, a klaxon sounding and a bell ringing, about a...
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.-—At 1.45 in the afternoon of the 17th of April, 1949, information was received that a Dutch vessel had stranded on Hantoon Bank, and at 1.55 the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was...
Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—On the 18th December, 1938, the French schooner Bretonne, of Treguier, was sheltering in Whitesand Bay from a S.E. gale.
She carried a crew of five and was bound with a cargo of coal from Cardiff to...
On the morning of the 17th November the schooner Sarah, of Waterford, was driven ashore from stress of weather in this bay. The Tramore life- boat was immediately launched through a very heavy sea, and took off the crew of 5 men and 1...
On the night of the 26th of November, the brig Fortuna, of Memel, stranded on the East Scar Rock, off Redcar. The Redcar life-boat proceeded to her, through a high sea, and took off her crew of 11 men, landing them in safety.