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Prosperity
During a southerly gale on the 25th Feb., the sloop Prosperity, of Portmadoc, sank off Aber- sooh, but the mast remaining above water, the crew found refuge on it till towards daybreak. After being four hours in their fearful position, their...
Lifeboat Services (From Page 190}
Lifeboat Services (from page 190} Enterprise dinghy Spirtle with one man on board, at 1648. The Pentland Firth Yacht Club's guard boat, The Mendicant, was still in attendance but was unable to make headway in the prevailing...
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Ben Hiant
Very early on the 19th October the auxiliary yacht Ben Hiant, of Stornoway, pleasure cruising with four persons on board, was sheltering in Campbeltown Loch. A whole N.W. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The weather was thick and...
Darts Debut
Dart, the RNLI’s newest lifeboat station, had its first shout on 24 November 2007.
Relief D class lifeboat Bob Savage and her crew were called out to recover a young man who had been thrown from his speedboat after hitting...
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Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire - At 3.35 p.m. on 23rd March, 1969, it was learnt that a boy was stranded on a rock off shore at Broadsea, Fraserburgh.
The life-boat Duchess of Kent was launched at 3.40. It was high water. The...
A Yacht From Dungarvan
JUNE 16TH. - HELVICK HEAD, CO.
WATERFORD. At three in the afternoon a man reported to the honorary secretary that a yacht from Dungarvan was at anchor about a mile and a half east of Helvick Head. A very strong...
Priceless support
More rescues than ever, a stormy economic climate, and plans to save more lives in the future: the RNLI’s AGM in May addressed a host of challenges …
Ladies and Gentlemen, set against everything we do is that continuing...
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Vrede
DECEMBER 22ND. - DONAGHADEE, CO.
DOWN. At 4.45 in the morning the Bangor coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore at Luke’s Point, Ballyholme. A squally north-westerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea and rain. The...
Venus, Galilee, Pilot Me, Progress and Lead Us
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 5th of June, 1953, it was noticed that conditions on the harbour bar were dangerous. Local fishing boats were at sea, and at nine o'clock the No. 2 harbour pulling life-boat Robert and Ellen...