DEC. 11TH. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO. DUBLIN, AND WICKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.
At 5.5 P.M. messages were received at Dun Laoghaire that a large vessel was aground on the Kish Bank, and that two tugs were being sent from Dublin to her...
Guernsey ladies' guild has its own 'lifeboat', a mobile souvenir stall which attracts great interest wherever she goes. Roger Wood designed Lady Goodwill and built her with the help of other lifeboat supporters; materials were... - View image in PDF
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Lowestoft, Suffolk, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—While returning from the fishing grounds to Yarmouth on the 1st December, 1937, the steam drifter Pilot Star, of Kirkcaldy, carrying a crew of ten, stranded on the Holm Sands. A...
Lowestoft, Suffolk, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—While returning from the fishing grounds to Yarmouth on the 1st December, 1937, the steam drifter Pilot Star, of Kirkcaldy, carrying a crew of ten, stranded on the Holm Sands. A...
Scarborough, and Filey, Yorkshire.—At 6.10 in the evening of the 17th of January, 1949, the Scarborough coast- guard reported to the life-boat station that anxiety was felt for the safety of the local motor fishing coble Hilda which had left...
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 11.48 on the night of the 17th of November, 1955, a message was received from the Valentia radio station that the trawler Styvel, of Concarneau. France, which had a crew of ten, had wirelessed that she had broken down...
Cromarty, Whitehills, and Buckle, Banffshire.—About 1.30 in the after- noon of the 4th of March, 1952, the fishing boat Guiding Star returned to Whitehills with wreckage of a Firefly aeroplane which she reported had crashed about three and a...
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 1.50 on the afternoon of the 22nd of July, 1952, a motor-cyclist arrived at the life-boat station and reported that a canoe with a boy clinging to it was being carried out to sea off Newbiggin, about five miles...
In re- sponse to a message on the 3rd August stating that a vessel was ashore on the Loe Bar, the Life-boat John Francis White was launched at 8.15 P.M. The Life-boat proceeded to the bar and met the men belonging to the stranded vessel in...
Coverack, Cornwall. On the morn- ing of the 5th of August, 1959, a doctor told the honorary secretary that he had learnt from the police that a man was lying injured on the rocks at Lankiddin Cove. The doctor asked for the assis- tance of...