Buckle, Banffshire. At 2.30 a.m. on 9th December, 1965, the life-boat Laura Moncur left her moorings in a moderate to strong south-westerly breeze and a moderate sea to relieve the Cromarty lifeboat which had been searching for fourteen...
Open boat swamped TYNE COASTGUARD reported to the honorary secretary of Sunderland lifeboat station at 1659 on Saturday September 10, 1983, that a small boat was in difficulties a quarter of a mile inside the south pier. It was a squally...
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Hartlepool, April 26, 1987: Crew member Tom Price splashes champagne over Hartlepool's new Atlantic 21 lifeboat Burton Brewer, following her naming ceremony.
The boat was provided from an appeal in Burton-on-Trent,... - View image in PDF
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Blustery showers and dark skies could not spoil the enjoyment of all present at Portsmouth lifeboat station on 26 April 1997 when their new Atlantic 75 lifeboat was named CSMA-Fhzzell, by Mr Colin Frizzell, past chairman of the Frizzell... - View image in PDF
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PENLEE, Friday February 14, 1986: at 0630 Penlee's 52 ft Arun class lifeboat, Mabel Alice, with Coxswain Ken Thomas at the helm, set out in a force 10 east by southerly storm and poor visibility. The Guernsey registered coaster, Roy...
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DEC. 19TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 3.5 A . M .
news was received by wireless from the Cross Sand Light-vessel, through the coastguard, that an explosion had occurred, followed by red flares, about two...
MARCH MEETING SANDAY, ORKNEYS. On the morning of the 10th December, 1940, flares were seen by the coastguard from the Holms of Ire, where the trawler Alex Hastie, of Aberdeen, had gone ashore, with a crew of ten aboard.
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AUGUST 20TH - 21ST. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
During the afternoon of the 20th the honorary secretary of the life-boat station was watching a ship to the south of Skegness pier, and just before eight o’clock the coastguard...