JANUARY MEETING NAIRN, MORAYSHIRE. About 11.15 on the night of the 13th of November, 1945, an R.A.F. Warwick aeroplane was seen by the Lossiemouth coastguard to crash in the sea in flames, six to eight miles in a north-easterly direction...
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Father and son trapped in cave Adifficult and dangerous service by Port Isaac's D class inshore lifeboat has led to the award of the RNLI's Thanks on Vellum to her helmsman Kevin Dingle and to a crew member, Mike Edkins.
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' Seamen of the Downs." By George Bethel Bayley. (Blackwood.
12s. Qd. net.) In this excellent book Mr. Bayley has continued the heroic story of the Lifeboatmen whose duty lies about the I dreaded Goodwin Sands,...
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On Scroby Sand WHILE WORKING aboard their lifeboat on Saturday December, 1979, Great Yarmouth and Gorleston crew, at 1758, heard a mayday from the fishing vessel St Margarite. Coxswain/Mechanic Richard Hawkins told Yarmouth Coastguard that...
BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. On the evening of 16th January, 1942, the steamer R. J. Cullen, of St. John’s, Newfoundland, was blown ashore at Leanish Point, on the S.E. side of Barra, by a S.E. gale, and on the 16th January, 1942, the Barra...
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When a group of four adults and a child discovered their speedboat was taking on water in choppy seas off Cork's Wild Atlantic Way, they desperately needed a lifeboat crew's...
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Dutch coaster A DUTCH COASTER Diana V, in distress 101° 74 miles from Spurn Head, was reported to Superintendent Coxswain Brian Sevan of Humber lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1400 on December 30, 1978; her cargo of maize had...
Fortitude off Falmouth Without power, Merchant Vessel Calina found herself at the mercy of a violent storm and drifting dangerously close to shore. With the nearest Coastguard Emergency Towing Vessel (ETV) several hours away, RNLI crew were...
BRAUNTON AND APPLEDORE, DEVON.— On the 11th of January, the ship Penthesilea, of Liverpool, manned by a crew of 30 hands all told, left Newport, Monmouthshire, laden with coal, for the Mauritius. She was towed down the Bristol Channel and...
Dutch coaster A DUTCH COASTER Diana V, in distress 101° 74 miles from Spurn Head, was reported to Superintendent Coxswain Brian Sevan of Humber lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1400 on December 30, 1978; her cargo of maize had...