STRANDED STEAMER TOWED IN Appledore, Devon. — At 5.30 in the afternoon of the 19th of December, 1947, the Westward Ho coastguard tele- phoned that a steamer was firing white rockets half a mile north-west of the Bar Buoy and the...
The s.s. Clan Malcolm, of Glasgow, bound from London to the Clyde, ran ashore near the Lizard in a dense fog on the 26th September. She was carrying a crew of seventy-five. A moderate to fresh S.S.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea....
125 years ago From The Life-Boat of 1870 At a time when the RNU'sinamie from legacies is under scrutiny it is interesting to look back to the Institution's earliest days ami the wn / in which lifeboat* were...
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Scotland North Division Propeller fouled AT 1050 on -Monday June 25, 1984, Pentland Coastguard contacted Wick lifeboat station's deputy launching authority with the news that a salmon coble was in difficulties off Ackergill. At 1100 the...
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Skipper taken ill THE YACHT Minuet, crossing the Channel from France with a crew of four on board on Thursday August 23, 1979, was making heavy weather and sent out a distress call; she was about eight miles east by north of Dover. HM...
REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.—On the 26th August one of the pilots went out in his boat, the Try Again, to bring back another pilot who was taking out a steamer. The wind, which was blowing from N.N.E., increased to a strong gale and a heavy sea sprung...
Thick fog THE WATCHMAN at St Aldhelm's Head Coastguard heard sounds of a vessel striking the rocks below his lookout in thick fog at 2145 on Thursday July 13.
Without delay he alerted the Coastguard Cliff Rescue Company...
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 9.38 p.m.
on 2nd October, 1965, the honorary secretary was notified that a yacht was in difficulties 200 yards east of Clacton Pier. At 9.55 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring launched in a slight...
Injured yachtsman saved from certain deathD A mayday call from an injured sailor who had lost control of a yacht was relayed to Falmouth Coastguard on 29 October 2003.
The Royal Navy (RN) search and rescue helicopter from...
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DIFFICULT CONDITIONS OVER BAR Crew member leaps aboard casualty from C class inflatable Helmsman Peter Heading and Crew Member Robert Gorman of Aberystwyth lifeboat station have been awarded the RNLI's Bronze medal for Gallantry...
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