The MFV Stephanie Jane is brought alongside in Milford dock by the St Davids' Tyne class lifeboat Garside, visible above the casualty's bow. (Photo Western Mail and Echo). - View image in PDF
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Redcar, Yorkshire.—While homeward bound for Grimsby, on the morning of the 25th September, 1939, the steam trawler Oswaldian, laden with fish and carrying a crew of eleven, ran ashore on the Salt Scar Rocks off Redcar.
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Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.8 on the afternoon of the 3rd of June, 1956, the coastguard telephoned to say a small boat with two people on board was in difficulties near the Brooklands groyne, Jay wick. The life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was...
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At 1.50 p.m. on 5th August, 1967, the coxswain was informed that a dinghy had capsized off Seapoint. The life-boat John F. Kennedy slipped her moorings 10 minutes later in a fresh southerly wind and a choppy sea. The tide was...
Troon, Ayrshire - At 3.50 p.m. on ist October, 1966, the honorary secretary saw a red flare aboard a motor boat off Lady Isle. Ten minutes later the lifeboat James and Barbara Aitken left her moorings in a rough sea and a fresh west north...
THE DUKE OF MONTROSE has been com- pelled by ill-health to give up the work which, for many years, he has done for the Life-boat Service, as a member of the Committee of Manage- ment of the Institution and its treasurer, and as chairman of...
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Valentia, and Fenit, Co. Kerry.—At 4.30 in the morning, on the 1st of August, 1950, the Valentia life-boat authorities received a telephone message from the Dingle Civic Guard. The local motor fishing vessel Ocean Star, with a crew of two,...
Kilrush, on the northern side of the approaches to the Shannon will become an Atlantic lifeboat station during 1995. The station will soon become a prominent feature at the point where the wall, to the right of the lock gates meets the... - View image in PDF
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