JANUARY 11TH . - ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At 5.45 A.M. a message was received from the Croyde Coastguard that distress signals had been received from the S.S.. Princess, in a position near Elwill Bay.
An easterly breeze was...
1 March: Courtown, Co Wexford The inshore crew went to the rescue of the driver of a 25-tonne dump truck that had become submerged at high tide on Ardamine Beach. The crew arrived to find the driver waving from...
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Mobile Training Unit No. 7 (MTU 7) is one of eight RNLI mobile training units which are dedicated to providing training for lifeboat crews at their own stations. The units vary in size from a small van (MTU 8) to large mobile classroom units...
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WHITBY.—On the 5th January, the Life-boat Robert Whitworth was launched at 10.40 P.M., and rescued the crew, consisting of 22 persons, from the s.s. Oscar, of Leith, which vessel had struck off the Whitby Rocks during thick weather and in a...
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. — At 4.50 in the morning, on the 7th of September, 1950, a fishing boat skipper reported that the motor fishing boat Bezaleel, of Banff, had wirelessed that she had sprung a leak, and needed help. A later message...
Coverack, Cornwall.—At 5.25 in the evening of the 22nd of August, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that the police had reported a little girl cut off by the tide in Coverack Bay. A small boat went out but failed to find her.
Books Cromer lifeboats 1804-2004 by Nicholas Leach and Paul Russell Published byTempus ISBN 0752431978 Price: £16.99 paperback In 2004, BBC viewers in Norfolk voted Coxswain Henry Blogg of Cromer their most famous local hero, above...
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THE history of the Institution during its first century of work has now been completed, and will be published in the early autumn of this year by Messrs.
Hodder & Stoughton, with the title " Britain's Life...
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Angle, Pembrokeshire.—On the morning of the 10th June the steam drifter Reclaim, of Lowestoft, carrying a crew of eleven, ran ashore on Middle Beach, West Angle Bay. A moderate west breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth, but the weather...