Aberdeen's Arun class lifeboat was on service for almost seven hours in gale force winds when the fishing vessel Ceol-na-Mara sprang a leak some 30 miles from the station.The Arun, BP Forties, was launched at 0430 on 12 February 1995...
Lifeboathouse destroyed: a 645-tonnc coaster. Kingsabbey ploughed into Southend Pier on the evening of Monday June M . 1986. She came l« rest athwart the lifeboat slipway destroying piles supporting the front of the boalhouse. More... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
APRIL 20TH. - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.
At 12.37 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that an aeroplane towing a target had come down in the sea about two miles west of the harbour. Most of the regular life-boat crew were out...
JANUARY 3lST. - DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN. At 11 A.M. the Ramsey life-boat station reported that a vessel with a barrage balloon attached was drifting towards Maughold Head, but that owing to the state of the tide the Ramsey life-boat could not...
RAMSGATE,NORTH DEAL AND WALMER In response to signals fired by the North Sand Head and Gull Light-vessels, the Life-boats Bradford, of Ramsgate, Mary Sommerville, stationed at North Deal, and Civil Service No. 4, of Walmer, were launched on...
EYEMOUTH, N.B.—After a heavy which had been blowing for some days, temporary fine weather induced several fishing- boats to go to sea on the 5th April. Soon afterwards heavy ground seas set in, and fishing-boats from Eyemouth and several...
South East Division Film men rescued BRONZE MEDAL FILMING OF A STUNT for the latest James Bond film at Beachy Head, East Sussex, on Tuesday, December 9, 1986, took a dramatic turn when a 17ft outboard-powered Dory, recovering equipment from...
Category: Services
Disabled A FISHING VESSEL, Gardelwen, suffering engine and steering failure was reported to the honorary secretary of Barmouth lifeboat station at 0330 on Sunday October 31, 1982. She was 17'/2 miles bearing 265°M from Barmouth and...
Steering failure LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of New Brighton lifeboat station at 1400 on Sunday August 29, 1982, that the yacht Ocea was acting in an erratic manner and appeared to be in difficulties just north of...
On the night of the 16th December, the barque Strathleven, of Glasgow, was wrecked, during a strong wind W. by N., half a mile North of Float Bay, about seven miles from Port Logan.
The vessel was under double reefed...