THE great increase in the number of services since the outbreak of war would make it necessary nearly to double the size of The Life-boat if each quarterly number were to contain accounts of all life-boat services for three...
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Thirty foot fall THE KEEPER of Old Head of Kinsale Lighthouse telephoned the honorary secretary of Courtmacsherry Harbour lifeboat station at 1630 on Saturday April 28, 1984, to say that a man had fallen down the cliff at Holeopen Bay West...
At about 7 P.M. on the 20th November, during a strong gale from the N.W., signals of distress were seen in the direction of Wexford Bar. The same Lifeboat was promptly manned, and proceededto the spot, and found that the fishing yawl Dazzler...
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 3.41 in the afternoon of the 22nd of August, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a broken down motor boat and a rowing boat were drifting northwards, on the ebbing tide, in a moderate south-westerly breeze and...
Caister, Norfolk. —At 5.20 in the morning, on the 22nd of November1950, the Great Yarmouth coastguard reported that a vessel seemed to be in distress and aground on Scroby Elbow to the south-east. At 5.30 the life-boat Jose...
Weymouth, Dorset. At 9.16 on the evening of the 3rd August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a single red flare had been seen three to four miles from Portland Bill. A yacht had been reported in the area a short time...
Torbay, South Devon - At 5.10 p.m.
on 8th March, 1967, it was reported that the motor fishing vessel Excellent's propeller had been fouled by a trawl. She was within half a mile of the Western Blackstone rock off the...
Flam borough, Yorkshire.—As the coble Ocean Gift was out fishing, and a strong north-east wind was rising, accompanied by a growing sea, the life-boat Howard D was launched at 7.55 on the morning of the 30th September, 1949. The...
Exercise becomes service to three A training exercise became operational experience for the crew of the new relief Atlantic 21 at Cullercoats on 1 May 1991, earning the station a Letter of Thanks from the Director.Cullercoats' relief...
Photographers save fishermen in GaleA rescue carried out by the crew of a rigid inflatable in Gale force conditions on 16 April 1991 has earned its two-man crew awards from the RNLI. The owner of the boat, Rick Tomlinson (a former crew...