— On 7th December, with a N.W. breeze blowing and a heavy ground swell on the sands, the Dutch steamer Friesland, belonging to Rotterdam, stranded on the east side of the Scroby Sands, west of the Bell Buoy. She was on her way, light, from...
THURSO and WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE, AND LONGHOPE, ORKNEY.—A small fishing boat belonging to John O'Groats put to sea with two men aboard shortly before 6 A.M. on the 28th April, intending to return the same morning at about 10...
At 6.10 A.M.
on the 14th February the coxswain heard a boat's siren making the SOS signal. He got in touch with Belhelvie coastguard and was told that a vessel was ashore about half a mile north of the Belhelvie...
K.C.B., C.V.O., C.B.E., who died on the 5th of December, 1954, at the age of 61, had been a member of the Com- mittee of Management for seven years.
He first joined the committee in 1947 as an ex-officio member when he was...
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Cromarty.—At 10.0 on the morning of the 12th of February, 1951, the coast- guard telephoned that a fishing boat was aground on the West Riff Sand- bank near Rosemarkie. At 10.17 the life-boat John Russell, on temporary duty at the station,...
The platform party after the life-boat naming ceremony at Kilmore Quay, Co. Wexford, Republic of Ireland, on 10th June, 1972, by Mrs, Brian Lenihan, in the presence of the Minister for Transport and Power.
A 37-foot Oakley... - View image in PDF
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• Rescue At Sea by John M. Waters, Jr. Captain U.S. Coast Guard (D. Van Nostrand Company Inc.) This well produced and strikingly illustrated book written by a senior officer of the U.S. Coast Guard makes fascinating and absorbing reading of...
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Lifeboat Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 54 Number 532 Chairman: SIR MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES CUE RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Editorial Assistant: MARY GYOPARI Advertisement Manager:...
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Poole's busy new Atlantic 75 took a short breather on 15 August 1995 for her official naming ceremony, but even before the champagne was dry on her bow she was off on another shout! The lifeboat was donated by the Ancient Order of... - View image in PDF
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Barra Island: At 0812 on Saturday July 21, 1984, Barra Island's 48ft 6in Solent class lifeboat, Hugh William Viscount Gough, was launched under the command of Coxswain/Mechanic John Macneil, following a MAYDAY from the survey ship Geotek... - View image in PDF
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