GROOMSPORT, Co. DOWN. — Shortly after 9 A.M. the Coastguard reported that a barque about a mileN-W. of Copeland Islands was signalling for "immediate assistance." The Coxswain assembled his crew and launched the Life-boat Chapman....
Plymouth, Torbay, and Salcombe, Devon.
—On the evening of the 9th January, with a strong south-westerly gale blowing, and a very heavy sea, information was received through the coastguard that signals of distress had been...
In the dense fog which prevailed in the Channel on the night of the 19th June, H.M.S. Sappho collided with another vessel off Dunge- ness. By a strange coincidence the colliding ship was also named the Sappho. The position of the cruiser...
Swanage, Dorset.—At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 31st of July, 1954, when the life-boat was about to be launched for the life-boat flag-day, a police sergeant told the coxswain that a woman was missing and was thought to be on a cliff at...
CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—At about one o'clock on the afternoon of Sunday, 1st October, 1882, the brigantine Eugenie Auguste, of Castletown, bound for that port from Euncorn with a cargo of coal, was observed to be labouring heavily and...
After 22 Years' Service The Old Plymouth Pulling and Sailing Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
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Portpatrick's Tyne class lifeboat takes Princess Alexandra to sea after the ceremony.. - View image in PDF
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(Above) A carvel built 18ft launch takes shape for the RNLI, and. - View image in PDF
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(Above) Bronze Medallist Albert Sutherland tells his story to the television.. - View image in PDF
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Michael Phillips (left) and Neil Thomas alongside the Saint David-Dewi Sant. - View image in PDF
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