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A roaring success
The Bikers Cove, neighbours and friends of RNLI Queensferry Lifeboat Station, hosted a custom bike show at the end of July – and it was certainly a 'triumph'. Over 400 bikers from all over...
Category: Articles
Emlyn
At about 10 P.M. on the 12th November Coxswain Howells observed the steamer Emlyn, of • Cardiff, burning flares for assistance, and he at once assembled the crew of the Motor Life-boat Charterhouse. The boat proceeded to the vessel, which...
High Fliers:
High fliers: Mr and Mrs Shepley of North Landing, Flamborough (pictured above), recently celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in supersonic style by boarding Concorde at East Midlands Airport for a trip of a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
John Smart
NEWBIGGIN-BY-THE-SEA, NORTHUMBERLAND.
—The steam-trawler John Smart, of Shields, on her return journey from fishing, stranded in Cambois Bay in thick weather early on the morning of the 8th February. In response to her...
Hassett
Filey, Yorkshire.—About 2.30 on the afternoon of the 21st of August, 1952, the coastguard asked for the life-boat to meet the Grimsby trawler Hassett off Flamborough Head in order to bring a sick man ashore. At 2.50 the life- boat The Cuttle...
Mouse
On the i llth February, at 3.40 P.M., the Coast- guard reported that signals of distress had been hoisted on the ketch Mouse, of Cardigan, which had been lying at anchor off Dinas Head. It transpired that the inset of the current caused the...
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Gabvay Bay. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 22nd October, 1961, the local doctor requested the use of the life-boat Peter and Sarah Blake, on temporary duty at the station, to take him to Inishmaan to attend a seriously injured...
Cuba
The Life-boat Joseph and Mary was launched from this station, at 8.30 A.M. on the 24th October, to go to the assistance of the brig Cuba, j of Abo, bound from that port to London, ! having a crew of 8 men. The vessel had I gone on shore on...
Maggie May
Ramsgate, Kent.—Between noon and one in the afternoon of the llth of July, 1950, the coastguard reported a sailing yacht apparently in danger of going aground. She was originally on a northerly course, but later headed south. He thought she...
S.S. Nicolaos
Walmer, and Ramsgate, Kent.—At * 8.7 P.M. on the 4th November, 1939, a message was received at Walmer from the Deal coastguard that distress signals had been seen about two miles east of their station. A S.W. wind was blowing, with...