Our islands have a great heritage of constructing ocean-going vessels. But their shipbuilding glory days are fading – except where the RNLI is concerned
At the end of the 1800s, the UK was constructing over half of the...
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POLPEAR (LIZARD) AND CADGWITH.— On the morning of the 4th March the s.s. Gustav Bitter, of Newcastle-on-Tyne while proceeding from London to the Manchester Ship Canal with a general cargo, stranded on the Callidges Rocks, off the Lizard...
ALL through the current year the cry of "bad business" and "no business" has been resounding through| the land, north, south, east and west, and the general depression, which seems to have settled upon us, might...
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PERHAPS the chief drawback to a sufficiency of life preserving articles being provided on board our packet steamers and other passenger ships, has been the unfitness for "other purposes of any such articles commonly in use. Thus it may...
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When hearing-impared surfer Isabella Denyer went out alone at Polzeath Beach, she soon became overpowered by waves. Here's what happened, in her own words
On a family holiday in Polzeath,...
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At sea, things can go very wrong very quickly, as Penarth lifeboat crew found out on 12 June
Kath Fisher couldn’t sleep. Tossing and turning, she thought: ‘Is this an omen that something’s about to happen?’ At 1.15am, her...
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ARDROSSAN.—On the afternoon of the 31st January it was reported that a man and woman had been observed at about 7 A.M. going off in a small punt to Horse Island for the purpose of gathering whelks, and as a gale had suddenly sprung up from...
At 12.15 A.M. on the 2nd October information was re- ceived that a vessel was continually burning flares off Trevose Head, and appeared to be driving ashore. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat Edmund Harvey were at once summoned, and the boat,...
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 1.20 P.M. on the 10th October, 1938, a telephone message was received from the inspector of the Coast Life-Saving Service at Dublin that the Lucifer Light-vessel was flying distress...