CAISTER, NORFOLK, and GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.— On the afternoon of the 7th November, during hazy weather, signal guns were heard from the St. Nicholas Lightship off the coast of Norfolk, in response to which the Gorleston Life-boat Mark Lane was...
ON the morning of 24th March, a very cold morning, with a heavy sea running, the Boulmer Life-boat was launched to stand by seven returning fishing boats of Craster, which, owing to the heavy seas breaking right across the Bar, would find it...
News and Views The latest news from and about the RNLI At the Sharp End Lifeboat services - some seen through the eyes of the casualty The Annual Meetings 14 The Annual General Meeting and the Presentation of Awards were held at the Barbican...
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MFV ashore RAMSEY COASTGUARD, Isle of Man, informed the honorary secretary of Port Erin lifeboat station at 0616 on Saturday, June 17 that the 70ft motor fishing vessel Incentive on passagefrom Whitehaven to Kilkeel with a crew of six aboard...
(5)—Going to work.—Frank Bloom and Les Wall rowing out to their oyster boat.. - View image in PDF
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Stronsay, Orkneys - At 6 a.m. on 5th March, 1966, the honorary secretary received a telephone message from the doctor on Sanday Island stating that he had an urgent case requiring immediate hospital attention in Kirkwall. Because of land...
DECEMBER 2ND. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 5.15 P .M.
message was received from the Tynemouth coastguard that a vessel had been mined three-quarters of a mile east of Tynemouth Piers. A light westerly breeze was...
Falmouth, Cornwall - At 6.21 p.m.
on 23rd June, 1966, it was reported that a small sailing boat with two men on board had capsized about four miles south east of Portscartho. The life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott on...
LOST PROPELLER Margate, Kent. At 7.7 p.m. on 9th October, 1963, the pilot office at Margate told the honorary secretary that a boat was flashing a light near Foreness Point.
The coastguard was informed of the incident, and...
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. — At 12.55 P.M. on the 25th October the motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3), which had just returned from the service already described, was warned that a yacht was ashore on Nore Sands, She put off...