Cloughey, and Donaghadee, Co. Down.— At three o'clock in the morning of the 31st of January, 1950, the Tara coast- guard telephoned the Cloughey life- boat authorities that the South Rock lightvessel had fired a white rocket. At 3.15 he...
FOUR LIFE-BOATS IN SEARCH OF A YACHT Padstow, Cornwall, Clovelly, Appledore, and Dfracombe, Devon.—On the llth of November, 1947, the motor yacht Ocean Spray, with a crew of two men and a woman, ran«into very bad weather off the north...
THE Central Committee of the Life-boat Saturday Fund and the District and Local Life-boat Saturday Committees through- out the country deserve the hearty congratulations of all friends to the Life-boat cause for the pluck and " staying...
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Skin diver missing AT 1335 ON SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 1987, Humber Coastguard informed the station honorary secretary at Fiamborough lifeboat station, that a skin diver was missing off Fiamborough Head.
He agreed to an immediate...
Humber, Yorkshire.—At. 12.10 on the afternoon of the 13th of February, 1953, while the life-boat City of Brad- ford II was on service to the S.S.
Monkton Combe, of Bristol, the Spurn Point coastguard reported that the S.S....
TRAWLER PULLED CLEAR Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 10.15 a-m- °n 20th February, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Sailfin of North Shields had grounded on Newcombe Sands. The lifeboat Frederick Edward Crick...
2: Receive From Her Crew A Heaving Line To Bring Wire Through Ruffle Hole In Boat's Forefoot. - View image in PDF
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Just before midnight on the 28th November-the coastguard reported that the fishing boat Nellie Crane, of Barrow-in-Furness, had left Barrow at 11 A.M. on a fishing cruise, and had not since been heard of.
There were three...
Around our iron-bound coasts wild waters rave, High revel holds the Storm King night and day; All honour, then, to those who dare to brave The rush and fury of his deadly sway! When seething billows toss their spumy crests, Lashed into...
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WHILE the engineers of the Institution were engaged in constructing the new launching Slipway at Porthdinllaen, in Carnarvonshire, for the Motor Life-boat which was sent to that Station in March last, the foreman in charge of the works Mr. T...
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