The record breakers: on Sunday, June 14, 1987, in Dun Laoghaire Harbour, Eire, 329 sailing boats formed the shape of a sunflower beating the previous world record of 192 boats to moor alongside one another - a feat since ratified by the... - View image in PDF
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Launches before the outbreak of war on 3rd September - - - 266
Launches after the outbreak of war ...
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Islay, Inner Hebrides - At 7 a.m. on 7th March, 1967, it was reported that the m.v. Emerald of Glasgow was aground on Feolin Spit in the Sound of Islay but was in no immediate danger. The mechanic was maintaining R/T contact with the vessel....
Holyhead, Anglesey. At 10.30 p.m.
on 25th October, 1965, the coastguard reported that the Irish ship River Avoca required a doctor to attend and bring ashore a member of the crew suffering from severe and continuous stomach...
GAVE A COURSE IN THE FOG Cloughey, Co. Down.—At 11.45 in the morning of the 27th of March, 1947, the Tara coastguard sent a warning message that a small vessel appeared to be in danger near Butter Pladdy Buoy.
The weather...
To WILLIAM J. BAKER, on his retirement, after serving for 25J years as coxswain of the Padstow life-boat, a coxswain's certificate •of service and an annuity.
To JAMES TAIT, on his retirement, after serving for 15f...
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FEBRUARY 15TH . - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. At 6.45 A.M . the coastguard reported a vessel in distress at Robin Hood’s Bay, and at 7.30 A.M. the No. 1 motor life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched.
A light S.E. wind was blowing,...
Captain Roy Harding, trials officer RNLI. - View image in PDF
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Ox Sunday the 27th of July. 1952, a service was held in the Church of the Holy Spirit, at Rye Harbour, to cele- brate the centenary of the first record- ed rescue, in August 1852, by the Rye Harbour life-boat, known at first as the...
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Car over cliff IN THE EARLY HOURS of Wednesday October 22, 1980, Paignton Police informed Brixham Coastguard that a car was over the cliff three miles from Torbay lifeboat station. The Police, Fire and Ambulance services were alerted and...