NOVEMBER 22ND. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY. At 1.15 in the afternoon the Holyhead coastguard reported that an R.A.F. aeroplane had crashed between the breakwater and the Skerries. A strong northwest wind was blowing, with a moderately rough sea,...
A three-masted schooner, the Six Sisters, of Hull, was anchored off the Grand Hotel, Sheringham, her auxiliary motor having broken down while she was bound to Portsmouth in ballast.
At 5.25 P.M. on the 31st May the coast-...
JULY 9TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, AND CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. While bound from Rochester to Maldon with a load of brick rubble the barge Maria, of Rochester, lost her sprit and was in difficulties about one and a half miles S.W. of the Swin...
AUGUST 30TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 10.30 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that the rowing boat Dorothy II, about one mile east of North Cheek, Robin Hood’s Bay, was showing a coat on an oar. A strong...
Three stranded A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC dialled 999 at 1937 on Thursday, September 3, 1987 to alert Milford Haven Coastguard to two boats in heavy surf off Broad Haven, moving towards Goultrop Roads.
A RAF Sea King helicopter...
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT SALCOMBE DECEMBER 4TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON. At 9.15 at night the coastguard at Hope Cove reported a vessel ashore at the lower end of Skerries, three miles to the east of Start Point. Shewas the Admiralty salvage craft...
The Norwood and district branch of the R.N.L.I, launched in August the first issue of their newsletter Lifelines.
The newsletter contains the first of a series of articles on gold medal rescues, the inaugural one being an...
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Corrections The Spring 2007 centre-spread picture of the rescue team at Tenby included representatives of the local Police, Ambulance, Fire and Coastguard services, though these were omitted from the caption. Sincere apologies to all...
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27 December: Loch Ness Three adults and two children were drifting at the north end of the choppy loch after their yacht suffered engine failure. The London family were on the first stage of their journey from Oban, heading for the canals of...
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Family rescued AT 2125 ON SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1987, Hartland Coastguard informed Clovelly lifeboat's Staff Coxswain Roger Smith that the 29ft yacht Moon Dragon required immediate assistance two miles west of Hartland...