MARCH 31ST. - TOBERMORY, ARGYLLSHIRE.
At 10.5 A.M. a message was received from the Island of Coll that a vessel was on the rocks a mile from Arinagour. A strong S.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate...
The brig Catherina Regina, of Riga, went ashore in Druridge Bay during very stormy weather on the morning of the 7th December. On information of the occurrence being received at the Life-boat Station, the boat was conveyed on her carriage to...
Walmer, Kent.—On the fourth of January, 1948, the motor life-boat Charles Dibdin—Civil Service No. 2, rescued 30 lives from the Italian steamer Silvia Onorato. The coxswain was awarded the silver medal for gallantry, the motor mechanic the...
AUGUST 11TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
A yacht had been reported capsized, several miles north-east of Great Orme’s Head, but nothing was found.
It seemed probable that this was the boat which capsized...
IN SHALLOW WATER At 11.11 p.m. on the same day the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a ship was aground in a moderate sea three miles off North Foreland. It was one hour after low water and there was a moderate westerly breeze....
You receive THE LIFE-BOAT regularly because of your close personal association with the life-boat service. May I now ask t for your help or, should I say, further help? If every reader at this time of year were to find five new 3...
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ALDEBURGH.—In response to messages by telephone received on the 15th February while a whole gale was blowing from S. by W., the Eeserve Life-boat, temporarily placed at this station, was launched at 10.30 P.M. Terrific seas were breaking on...
Redcar, Yorkshire. At 5.40 on the evening of the 15th of October, 1957, the Saltburn coastguard telephoned that the salvage vessel White Heather needed help near the old wreck of the Demetrius off Redcar. At 6.10 the fife-boat City of Leeds...
THE Institution is again issuing a life- boat calendar and a Christmas card.
The calendar will have on it a reproduction in colours of a picture by Mr. William McDowell, showing the 60- feet motor life-boat at New Brighton,...
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