ABOUT five in the evening of 23rd December, 1938, the coastguard rang up the life-boat station at Blyth, Northumberland, to report a ship, firing rockets and blowing her whistle, about three miles east of Newbiggin Point. At 5.15 the motor...
Category: Services
Car over cliff LATE ON THE EVENING OF THURSDAY JULY 24, 1986, the coastguard cliff rescue team were called to Port Soderick Bay, 2'/2 miles south of Douglas on the Isle of Man. A car with four people inside had driven over a 330 ft cliff...
RESCUE OF A WOMAN AND DOG Port Erin, Isle of Man. At three o'clock on the afternoon of Wednesday the llth of September, 1963, the Ramsey coastguard told the honorary secretary that a woman was stranded on the cliffs at Bradda Head. She...
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—While a moderate gale from the S.S.W. was blowing and in thick weather, the schooner Mary Jane, of and for Eamsey from Whitehaven with a cargo of coal, was seen labouring heavily, having her sailstorn and rendered...
Mike Soars of Brierly Hill and Kingswinford branch set up a special amateur radio station for the RNLI's anniversary to help spread the word.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Swanage, Dorset - At 7.53 p.m. on 16th May, 1970, the coastguard told the assistant honorary secretary that a girl was injured on the cliff half a mile west of Anvil point. The lifeboat R.L.P. was launched at 8.5. It was three hours after...
Tynemouth, Northumberland. — At 12.30 P.M. on the 17th November, 1937, the coastguard reported a small vessel anchored about a mile east of Brown's Point, Cullercoats, apparently with engine trouble. The weather was bad, and the...
The History of the Rhyl Lifeboats by Jeff Morris published by the author at £2.50 This is the second edition of Jeff Morris's account of the lifeboats and services in this wellknown North Wales resort.
As usual the...
Category: Articles
O.N. 70-002 at Kirkwall - At 10.37 a.m. on 23rd September, 1968, the coastguard told the staff coxswain that a lobster boat had broken down half a mile north east of Gault buoy.
The 1RB carried aboard the life-boat Grace...
On the 27th February, at 1.15 P.M., the Albert Edward Life-boat put off to the assistance of the steamer Blonde, of Whitehaven, bound from Goole for London with a cargo of coal and oil, and carrying a crew of ten men, which had stranded on...