Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At 10.20 on the night of the 19th of October, 1954, a woman at Sheshader rang up to say that a fishing boat had run ashore off Sheshader. At 10.45 the life- boat The James and Margaret Boyd, put out. The sea was...
HELICOPTER-LIFE-BOAT SEARCH FOR MISSING MAN Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 2.30 p.m.
on Wednesday the 10th of July, 1963, the life-boat coxswain reported that a man who had put off for a fishing trip off Bembridge in the...
JAN. 23RD. - TORBAY, DEVON. During the morning the auxiliary ketch St. Helens, of London, broke from her moorings in Brixham Outer Harbour in a severe N.W. gale, and drove ashore on the beach near the life-boat station. A motor trawler got...
Poole, Dorset. At 6.45 on the evening of the 5th of February, 1961, the honor- ary secretary was told by the police that calls for help had been heard coming from the direction of Holes Bay. When the life-boat Thomas Kirk Wright was launched...
Lerwick, Shetland*. — Early on the morning of the 31st January, 1938, the coastguard reported that a trawler was ashore on the island of Bressay. A S.S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea and showers of sleet. The motor life-boat Lady Jane...
COUBTOWN, Co. WEXFORD.—The Alfred and Ernest Life-boat put off at noon on the 9th August, signals of distress having been shown from the schooner Corsair, of Arklow. That vessel had for several months past been stranded on the beach about a...
Michael Forsyth, a pupil of Kirkwall Grammar School, hands over a cheque for £78.80 to Captain M. S. Work, honorary secretary of Kirkwall lifeboat station, on board the 70ft Clyde class lifeboat, Grace Paterson Ritchie. The money was... - View image in PDF
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HAVING decided which are the correct distress signals to be carried according to the size of craft concerned and her particular marine activities (Schermuly's complete range of officially approved marine distress pyrotechnics was...
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 11.35 on the morning of the 23rd of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boy was drifting out to sea in a dinghy off Amroth. Four minutes later the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was...
ABBROATH.—Several fishing-boats having been overtaken by a strong gale from the S.S.E., and a very heavy sea, on the 30th May, the People's Journal No. 2 Lifeboat was launched at 2.45 A.M., pulled out to the bar, and remained there in...