Fishing vessel founders THE FRENCH FISHING VESSEL Cite d'Aleth, in distress, was reported to the honorary secretary of Rosslare Harbour lifeboat station by MRCC Shannon at 0634 on Wednesday January 12. At first it was reported that Cite...
NOVEMBER 25TH. - SENNEN COVE PENLEE, AND THE LIZARD, CORN: WALL. After a naval and air battle in the Channel some ten miles off Wolf Rock Light, these three life-boats were asked by the coastguard to go out and search for survivors.
WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE—In a light wind, a moderate sea and hazy weather, on the morning of the 28th June, a telephone message was received from the Grunfleet Lighthouse reporting a barque ashore. The crew of the Life-boat Honourable Artillery...
CRIES FOR HELP Falmouth, Cornwall. At 9.21 p.m.
on iyth September, 1965, the coastguard told the coxswain that cries for help had been heard in the water off the Prince of Wales pier. There was a gale from the...
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 21st of September, 1952, the coxswain of the No. 1 life- boat reported that the motor pleasure launch Lady Margaret, of Middles- brough, had gone aground on the harbour bar. The tide was too...
FLEETWOOD.—Signals of distress were shown on the night of the 6th April by the steam trawler Diana, of Grimsby, which had stranded on Barnard's Wharf in a strong W.S.W. breeze, a heavy sea, and thick weather. The Life-boat Maude Pickup...
THE Life-boat Service, as has often been mentioned in the Institution's appeals, costs each year threepence a head of the population of Great Britain and Ireland.
A member of the Institution's staff was recently...
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LIFE-BOATMEN all over the country at one time or another have read about, or even participated in, a rescue carried out by an R.A.F. helicopter.
From time to time, too, helicopters make the headlines, not for some dramatic...
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CARDIGAN.—About 2 P.M. on the 1st November it was reported that the smack Ellen, of Milford, which had during the day come up from the westward, and had brought up in the bay outside the bar, had hoisted a flag for resistance, and that she...
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