NOVEMBER 25TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE. A British bomber had crashed, her crew of four had come down by parachutes, and one of them was believed to have dropped in the sea, but it was found later that he, like the others, had come...
During an ex- ceptionally severe northerly gale and very heavy sea on the 8th January signals of distress were observed from the brigantine Walter J. Cummins, of Irvine, which lay off Moelfre weather bound, whilst bound from Wicklow to...
Stranded swimmer R LIFEBOAT CREW were paged at 1428 on Saturday, August 8. 1987, following a report of a man having been cut off by the tide below Hunt Cliff, Saltburn.
The station's Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable...
wu KI.OW, Thursday February 13, 1986: the 42ft Watson class lifeboat. J. W. Archer, setting out at 132S on service in a gale force 8 to 9 south-easterly, to go to the aid of a catamaran some 20 miles to the south east of the station. The...
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 8.30 on the evening of the 3rd of April, 1959, the honorary secretary received a message that three pedigree cows had fallen over a cliff at Manorbier. Two of the cows were in a position which was inaccessible from...
Wreaths were laid to mark the 50th anniversary of the Broughty Ferry lifeboat disaster on 8 December.
Eight crew members lost their lives while going to the aid of the North Carr lightship off St Andrew’s Bay. They were...
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TRIALS ARE AT PRESENT in progress on two different possible answers to the same problem: how best to achieve a stretcher which will float. While flotation is obviously a desirable extra safeguard in any marine situation, there are also many...
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While a strong gale was blowing from the S., accompanied by a very heavy sea, on the night of the 5th October, signals of distress were shown by the schooner Mary and Martha, bound from Queensferry for Dundalk, laden with bricks, which had...
Capsized dinghy ON THE AFTERNOON of Wednesday May 11, 1983, both lifeboats stationed at Eastbourne were launched to help the fishing vessel Dawn Anne, in difficulties with a broken fuel line 1 '/2 miles east of the lifeboat station; she...
WHITBY.—On the 23rd February, when blowing hard from N.N.E., while several fishing-cobles were running into the harbour, one, the Ann Elizabeth, was caught by a cross sea and capsized. The No. 1 Life-boat, Robert Whitworth, was...