AUGUST 5TH. - NEWCASTLE, CO. DOWN. At 4.10 P.M. a message was received from the Newcastle coastguard that a local fishing boat was in distress three to four miles east of the coastguard station, and at 4.30 P.M. the motor life-boat L. P. and...
Lifeboat Services Continued 22, Feb 3,10,13 Atlantic 21: Dec 8 (twice), Jan 21 and Feb 10 Red Bay, Co Antrim C class: Dec 13, Jan 15 and 23 Redcar, Cleveland Atlantic 21: Nov 10, 24, Dec 12,28, 29 (twice), Jan 16 (twice), 18, 31 and Feb 15...
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St. Ives, Cornwall. At 12.20 early on the morning of the 18th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel needed help eight and a half miles west-north-west of St.
Ives Head. Five minutes...
Launches 62 Lives rescued 8
NOVEMBER 2ND. - TORBAY, DEVON.
The officer of H.M. Customs at Brixham received a radio signal from the S.S. Belgique, of Antwerp, bound for Rio de Janeiro, that she had set...
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ON page 379 appears the account of the rescue, on 7th September, by the motor life-boat at Moelfre, Anglesey, of a dinghy, with a man and woman on board her, which was being carried out to sea. Here is a description of the same service—as...
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FIREMEN TO THE RESCUE WHEN the 25-foot fishing vessel Bounty of Jersey, G.I., with four men aboard, was reported in difficulties at 8.21 p.m. on 24th July, 1970,* off the Rigdon Bank in St. Ouen's Bay, Jersey, the St. Helier life-boat...
Dover, Kent.—At 11.48 on the night of the 9th of March, 1954, the Sandgate coastguard telephoned that a woman had scrambled down a cliff near St.
Margaret's Bay. She had gone down to comfort her dog, which had fallen...
St. Helier, Jersey. At 9.30 a.m. on I2th April, 1964, the watchkeeper of La Corbiere lighthouse informed the Harbour Office that a motor cruiser appeared to be on fire about half a mile west-northwest of the lighthouse. There was a moderate...
(Above) Forty and more entrants set off on Sunday, October 4, for Soiithend-on-Sea ladies' guild's second tinnual fancy dress sponsored bicycle ride along the seafront from Shore House, Shoebury, where Percy Caron judged the costumes... - View image in PDF
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