On the evening of 18th June, 1970, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of the Walmer inshore rescue boat that two people had been cut off by the tide in St. Margaret's bay. At 9.30 the IRB crew were summoned. They launched 14...
Category: Services
Mr. R. B. Scott, Motor Mechanic at New Brighton.
BY the death, on 23rd July at the age of sixty-two, of Mr. Kalph Brown Scott, Chief Motor Mechanic of the Life-boat at New Brighton on the Mersey, a Lifeboatman with a very...
Category: Obituaries
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...
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...
PORT EYNON, GLAMORGANSHIRE. — During a strong S.W. gale and heavy sea, on the morning of the 25th February, a vessel was observed to bedrifting apparently in a helpless condition.
The crew of the Life-boat A Daughter's...
This life-boat was also taken out on the night of the 3rd October, a vessel having been reported to be stranded on the Gore Sands, on which, on account of recent gales, a considerable sea was running, preventing any ordinary boat from...
RESCUES OF BOYS CUT OFF BY TIDE Redcar, Yorkshire. At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 17th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that three boys had been cut off by the tide at Huntcliffe, Saltburn, and that a speed boat was...
Overdue BELFAST COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Portaferry lifeboat station at 1815 on Sunday December 19, 1982, that the yacht Frieda, on passage in Strangford Lough betweeen Killyleagh and Ringshaddy, had been reported...
NORTH SUNDERLAND.— While the fishing- boats were out on the 28th April the sea suddenly rose, compelling them to return home. All the boats succeeded in entering the harbour safely with the exception of two, and to assist thise, the...