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JANUARY 8TH. - ILFRACOMBE, DEVON.
During the evening a request was received at the pier for a doctor to be sent to a naval vessel in the Bristol Channel. As no other suitable boat was available the motor lifeboat Rosabella...
APRIL 29TH. - EYEMOUTH, BERWICKSHIRE, AND BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. At midnight on the 28th of April information was received that a small boat with one man in it, and only one oar, had been swept out of the harbour by the ebb...
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MARCH 5TH. - GALWAY BAY. A man was seriously injured in a bad accident on the island of Kilronan, and it was necessary to take him to hospital on the mainland.
All the local boats were out fishing. So at 1.30 P.M., the...
OCTOBER 29TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX.
During an air battle the coxswain saw a British aeroplane crash several miles W. by S. from Selsey Bill, and at 3 P.M. launched the motor life-boat Canadian Pacific. A moderate S.E. breeze...
The 100-year-old Dutch clipper De Tukker ran aground on a sandbank at the entrance to Amble Harbour, after a tide miscalculation. Amble’s D class Mildred Holcroft crew passed a tow rope from the...
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HOLY ISLAND.—On the 21st March, at about 11 P.M., signals of distress were seen just beyond the bar. There was a heavy rolling sea, and the night was very dark. The Life-boat Grace Darling was launched, and went out to the vessel, but great...
FEBRUARY 9TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON. NORFOLK. At 2.25 P.M. the coastguard reported that H.M. Trawler Clotilde was ashore on the north beach about one hundred yards from the north pier, and ten minutes later the naval authorities...
NOVEMBER 23RD. - BARROW, LANCASHIRE. At 10.40 in the morning the Walney coastguard telephoned that a steam trawler was aground about one and a half miles W.S.W. of the coastguard station, and at 10.50 A.M. the motor life-boat N.T. was...