— A whole N.N.E. gale swept the Irish Channel on llth January, accompanied by very heavy seas. About half-past eight o'clock the steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland was called out in re- sponse to signals of distress, and the...
Force 11 gusting12 HEARING FROM Fishguard Coastguard at 2200 on Monday, January 13, that Michael of Famagusta, whose engine had broken down, was drifting about 18 miles off the entrance to Waterford, Dunmore East honorary secretary gave...
Dunbar lifeboat crew at Poole depot quay with their new lifeboat just before departure.. - View image in PDF
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A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...
In response to signals of distress from a vessel at anchor on the north-west side of the Hugo Bank, the Life- boat Charlie Medland was launched shortly after 3 P.M. on the 5th January.
They found the brigantine Perseverance...
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 1.10 early on the morning of the 30th of August, 1953, the Foreland coastguard telephoned that the Nab pilot cutter had reported that a yacht needed help three miles north-north-east of Nab Tower. The...
On the 8th Fe- bruary, the Norwegian barque Galatea ran on shore on the bar at the entrance of Youghal harbour, the captain having mistaken the port for Queenstown: a gale of wind was blow- ing at the time from the south, and there was a...
On 22nd February the Happy Harry, a schooner belonging to Whitehaven, bound, laden, from Glasgow to Wexford with a crew of four on board, ran ashore on the North Dogger Bank. She was seen by the Harbour Master, who telephoned to the...
MAN TAKEN OFF LIGHTVESSEL Arklow, Co. Wicklow. At 7.10 on the evening of the 18th August, 1962, the Wicklow honorary secretary asked if the Arklow life-boat would land a member of the crew of the Codling lightvessel as the man's father...
BUCKIE.—At 9 A.M. on the 7th Aug. last a pilot-boat put off to bring the schooner Ben Aigen, coal laden from Sunderland, into the harbour during a strong gale from the N.W. and a rough sea. The pilot boarded the vessel and the boat proceeded...