Howth, Co. Dublin - At 6.35 p.m. on 30th April, 1966, the Garda informed the motor mechanic that two boys were stranded at the foot of the cliff at Castena Bay. The fire brigade had been unable to reach them. In the absence of the honorary...
AT 12.38 early on the morning of the j 2nd of January, 1956, the motor vessel Citrine of Glasgow, a vessel of 779 tons, bound from Llandulas for London with a cargo of limestone and carrying a crew of ten, wirelessed that her fore hatch had...
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An invitation to me visit id discover the world of lifeboats..Few visitors to the seaside would think of a lifeboat station as a place to visit. But, as the operation and housing of a lifeboat is an essential seafront activity, many...
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Plymouth, Devon.—At 6.46 on the evening of the 10th of May, 1953, the Yealm coastguard rang up to say that the owner of the fifteen-feet sailing dinghy Zephyr had reported that two men who had hired the dinghy that afternoon had last been...
Three saved .from stranded vessel Aservice to a fishing vessel in gale force winds, darkness, shallow water and heavy breaking seas has earned Wells lifeboat station a letter of commendation from the Institution's Chairman.On 17 November...
Whitby, Yorkshire. — In the early hours of the 2nd of November, 1956, the motor fishing vessel Lend Us, of Whitby, put out to go to the fishing grounds. By midday the weather had deteriorated, and as the fishing boat was due to return to...
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the afternoon of the 30th of December, 1955, it was reported that four local fishing boats were still at sea. Conditions at the harbour bar were dangerous, and at 1.54 the no. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworih was launched....
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At 10.30 on the night of the 29th of December, 1959, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that the Gorton lightvessel had reported a flare seen south-east of the lightvessel....
St. Abbs, Berwickshire.—During the morning of the 25th of March, 1955, a wireless message was heard from the fishing boat Lindfar, of Eyemouth, that she was returning to Eyemouth, as a member of her crew had been badly injured by a winch....
At 6 A.M. on the 4th February a telephone message was received stating that a ship was burning flares as a signal of distress close to the headland. With all haste the No. 2 Life-boat Matthew Middleuood was launched and proceeded to her.<...