Penlee Lifeboat Disaster With great sorrow the death is announced of the coxswain and crew of Penlee lifeboat which was lost on service on the night of Saturday December 19, 1981.
Penlee lifeboat, the 47ft Watson Solomon...
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Stromness, Orkneys.—At 9.10 on the evening of the 20th of December, ] 955, the Kirkwall coastguard rang up to say that flares had been seen between Hoy Head and Graemsay. At 9.23 the life-boat Archibald and Alexander M. Pater son was...
FLEETWOOD.—Signals of distress were shown on the night of the 6th April by the steam trawler Diana, of Grimsby, which had stranded on Barnard's Wharf in a strong W.S.W. breeze, a heavy sea, and thick weather. The Life-boat Maude Pickup...
At day- break on the 25th September, a vessel was observed at anchor close in-shore in the Bay to the west of Carnsore Point.
It was blowing hard from W.8.W., and, as usual with an on-shore wind on this coast, a heavy sea...
DECEMBER 20TH. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. At 12.5 in the afternoon the Ramsey coastguard reported that they had received information of a vessel in distress. Ten minutes later the position was given as Castletown Bay, and five minutes...
50 years ago From THE LIFE-BOAT WAR BULLETIN No. 1, September 1940 SUSPENSION OF THE LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL Owing to the need for the strictest economy in the use of paper the Institution's journal The Lifeboat" stopped publication after...
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Howth, Co. Dublin. On the morning of the 8th December, 1961, the Baily lighthouse keeper informed the honor- ary secretary that an elderly man on Lambay Island, who had recently under- gone an operation, was in urgent need of hospital...
(Right) Borth: ILB Crew Member Anna Hubbard out on exercise with Crew Member leuan Griffiths and Helmsman Ronnie Davies.. - View image in PDF
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Guns and rockets were fired from the Gull and East Goodwin light-vessels at 5 A.M. on the 23rd March, during a strong S.W. wind and a heavy sea. The Bradford Life-boat was towed out by the harbour steam-tug Aid, and found the schooner Fairy...