Summer is fast approaching and the RNLI’s lifeguards are dusting down their rescue tubes, ready for another season on the UK’s most popular beaches.
This year, they’ve crossed the Irish Sea and will be patrolling in...
Category: Articles
The British Railways IRB station, which was established in May, 1968, on the south side of the River Tay to provide protection for the teams of workmen on the bridge, receives training assistance from the Droughty Ferry...
Category: Donations
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 6.31 on the evening of the 20th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that an open boat with an out- board motor had broken down and was drifting about two miles off...
Bridlington motor life-boat returning on 11th January after standing by fishing boats. - View image in PDF
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Category: Photographs
The life-boat calendar for 1943 will shortly be ready. It will have on it a reproduction in colours of a painting of Coxswain Edward Drake Parker, of Margate, who won the D.S.M. for helping to bring off over 600 men of the B.E.F. from the...
Category: Articles
Way, Inner Hebrides.—At 10.35 on the night of the 23rd of July, 1949, the Southend coastguard reported a tele- phone message from the Isle of Gigha that the motor yacht Hyskeir II, of Greenock, was aground on a reef to the north of...
Tenby, Pembrokeshire.— At 8.30 on the evening of the 5th of July, 1955, the coastguard reported that the local motor boat Ranee had broken down off Eel Point. He later stated that she had anchored, but was dragging sea- wards. At nine...
During a fresh S.W. breeze on the 14th May it was reported that a vessel was on the S.W.
part of the Guufleet Sands, the steam Life-boat City of Glasgow therefore pro- ceeded to her assistance. On reaching the sands they...
From Mid-Atlantic.
WE have received a denation of ten shillings with the following letter, which has no other address than " on the Atlantic " :—• " While a passenger on the Freighter Baby Castle, I have read...
Category: Donations
Search for divers THE SUPPORT BOAT of a party of divers contacted the coastguard at 1355 on the afternoon of Sunday September 15, 1985, to say that two of their divers had not surfaced from their diving on the wreck of ss Teddington, about...