Barrow, Lancashire.—At 11.15 P.M.
on the 9th January a message was picked up from the motor vessel Innishowen, of Chester, asking for the life-boat to convey an injured man ashore. With a crew of four she was bound with pig...
Nineteen of the Institution’s life-boats helped to bring off men of the British Expeditionary Force and the French Army from the beaches of Dunkirk in 1940. Two of these life-boats, Ramsgate and Margate, were manned by their own crews. They...
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PADSTOW.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently sent a large Life- boat to Padstow, on the north coast of Cornwall, to take the place of a smaller one forwarded there some years since.
The new boat is 34 feet long...
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ADDITIONAL monetary awards have been paid to the crew of the Courtmacsherry' Co. Cork, life-boat for the service they undertook to the French trawler Obelix on 18th February, 1969, in the worst local weather for...
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Ten small boats WEST MERSEA deputy launching authority was informed by HM Coastguard at 1652 on Saturday May 26, 1979, that an upturned sailing dinghy had been sighted l'/2 miles east of Shinglehead Point. Maroons were fired and at 1700...
The Institution has appointed Commander T. G. Michelmore, R.D..R.N.R., who was its inspector of life-boats on the east coast, and before that inspector in Scotland, to be deputy chief inspector of life-boats. Commander Michelmore's place...
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JULY 19TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.
At six in the morning information was received from the Dock Board that a fishing boat was ashore on the revetment opposite Gamma Buoy, with spray going over her. A fresh westerly breeze...
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 2.25 in the afternoon of the 16th of September, 1949, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that a message had been received from the Llandudno coast- guard that a yacht bound for Liverpool was making heavy weather....
On the evening of the 24th January the Sandness look- out station reported having received a morse message from Papa Stour, an island about twelve miles away, that a man on the island had been seriously injured and required medical attention...
On the 25th November, the small life- boat, the Boys', at this place, put off to the help of the schooner Assistant, of Stavanger, which was stranded on the Barber Sands during a strong wind and hazy weather.
She...