22nd Feb- ruary. Searched where a rocket was reported to have been seen, but found nothing.—Rewards, £16 5s. 6d..
At 5.45 A.M. on the 2nd February, Coxswain John Swan was called out by the Coast-guard as a vessel was burning flares as a signal of distress. He at once assembled his crew and launched the Life-boat Kentwell, which proceeded to the New-...
DIED AFTER FALL Howth, Co. Dublin. At 5 p.m. on I2th June, 1964, the gardai told the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen down the cliff at Balscadden and could be seen in the water. The tide had been ebbing for two hours and there was a...
A sudden gale from the E.N.E. sprang up on the morning of the 4th December, when the fishing-boats had just reached the fishing-ground. As the sea rose very high, only one boat attempted to shoot any lines; all the others ran for the bay.<...
Air bags which, when inflated, will initiate righting are fitted to Atlantic 21 ILBs (right above), and to Watson and Barnett lifeboats (right). - View image in PDF
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire. — At 2.35 in the afternoon, on the 17th of October, 1950, the coastguard reported that a motor yacht, apparently deserted, was drifting, about a mile from Manorbier Point. At 2.45 the life-boat John...
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At 7.30 on the evening of the 3rd of July, 1957, the honorary secretary and coxswain saw the fishing boat Valerie in difficulties off Skegness. The Valerie was towing the house-boat Miranda. The life- boat The Cuttle...
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—On the afternoon of the 29th July the Sizewell coastguard reported that a cabincruiser, which was being towed by a yawl, had broken adrift half a mile N.E. of the coastguard station, and that it was not certain if anyone...
Aberdeen - At 2.9 a.m. on i6th December, 1966, a red flare was sighted north of the river Ythan, and later it was confirmed that the motor fishing vessel Semnos II was aground north of the river estuary. The coastguard L.S.A. company were...
Pour days afterwards the Life-boat was again called out on service, when the steamship Tripoli, of Glasgow, went oa the Tuskar Shoal, while the mad was blowing strongly from the North. The Wexford No. 2, and Camsore Life-boats both put off,...