26th Sep- tember. A small boat had capsized, but the two men on board reached the shore.—Rewards, £7 15s..
The Institution will be glad to supply free to any yacht club a copy of the chart of life-boat stations round the British Isles which appears in the annual report. The chart is varnish- ed arid can be sent mounted on cardboard and holed and...
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The Bessemer City on the Cornish rocks. - View image in PDF
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Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 8.55 on the morning of the 8th of September, 1957, Portpatrick radio reported that the Dutch vessel Muske- tier had lost her propeller near Tuskar Rock and needed help. The life-boat John R. Webb, on...
The crew of a Breton trawler towed in by the Galway Bay life-boat (Seepage 176). - View image in PDF
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FISHING BOAT ADRIFT Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.-—During the afternoon of the 17th of September, 1947, the pilot on watch reported that the local motor fishing boat St. Joseph was being carried out to sea by the easterly wind and ebbing tide...
Wicklow.—At 3.30 in the afternoon of the 10th of January, 1949, the local herring boats went to sea, but were overtaken by bad weather, and an hour later put back. One was missing, and at 5.5 the life-boat Lady Kylsant was launched. A...
On the evening of the 26th of July, 1954, the Aberystwyth, Cardigan- shire, life-boat Aguila Wren, after standing by for an hour in rough seas with a gale blowing from the south- west, rescued three people from the motor fishing vessel Lindy...
Amble, Northumberland.—At 1.55 on the afternoon of the 19th of February, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that the local fishing boat Margaret Anna was still at sea in bad weather.
At 3.15 the life-boat J. W. Archer was...
The Danish steamer Canada from which the Humber life-boat rescued 14 lives on 3rd November, 1939.. - View image in PDF
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