— At about noon on the llth January, during a whole S.E. gale with very heavy squalls, and a rough sea, it was reported to Coxswain McEachran that a fishing- boat on a lee shore in the Loch had broken adrift, collided with and badly damaged...
NORTH DEAL.—Signal rockets and guns having been fired by the Gull Light-vessel on the 4th January, the Life-boat Mary Somerville was launched at about 6.15 P.M., and proceeded towards the Goodwin Sands. The wind was blowing moderately from...
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RNLI lifeguards on Fistral Beach, Cornwall, volunteered to carry out weekend patrols without pay last Winter. It was a good job they were there on 7 November 2010, when a bodyboard instructor carried out a headcount after leaving the water –...
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BULL BAY.—Signals of distress were shown by a vessel lying between the East Mouse and Amlwch port, on the evening of the 12th January. They were repeated in quick succession, and the Lifeboat Curling was promptly launched, four minutes only...
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. — At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 12th of May, 1957, the coastguard re- ported that three canoes appeared to be in difficulties and to be making no pro- gress off Great Orme's Head light- house....
Aith, Shetlands.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 3rd of June, 1954, the Lerwick coastguard rang up to say that the motor fishing boat Britannia, of Lerwick, with a crew of five, had broken down in Papa Sound off Sand- ness. At 12.58 the...
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 8.15 on the evening of the 4th of September, 1958, a message was received from Valentia radio station that the trawler Ros Airgead needed a doctor twenty miles north of Blaskets, as one of her seamen had been badly...
DUNGENESS.—The Coxswain of the Life-boat B.A.O.B., being informed by the Coastguard on the morning of the 8th January that a steamer was stranded, the crew were summoned and at 5.30 the * Life-boat was launched.
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At 1.50 p.m. on 20th October, 1966, a longshore boat was seen burning a red flare off Pakefield beach, two miles north of Lowestoft harbour entrance. The lifeboat Frederick Edward Crick slipped her moorings ten minutes later in a fresh...