"Some years ago, when a life-boat was about to be launched in the teeth of a gale, someone said to the coxswain: 'You can't go out in a sea like that—you'll never come back.' The coxswain replied, 'We have to go...
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Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At 9.52 on the night of the 7th of September, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that the motor fishing boat Mayflower, which had gone with a crew of five, to SuUskcr Rock for Solan-geese, was overdue. A...
Stronsay, Orkneys.—At 10.43 on the night of the 25th of February, 1957, a message was received from the Kirk- wall coastguard that the motor vessel Finvoy, of Belfast, was in danger of being driven ashore east of Horse of Copinsay. At 11.20...
Aberdeen.—At 6.37 in the morning of the 13th of January, 1949, informa- tion was received from the Pilot Station that a vessel was aground to the north of the north pier, Aberdeen Bay, but was not making signals of...
On the morning of the 26th December, twelve of the fishing cobles proceeded to the fishing ground at about 4.30 A.M.
A little before ten o'clock a very heavy S.E. wind arose, and the sea increased, making the landing...
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At 10.20 on the morning of the 1st of May, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Sea Venom aircraft with a crew of two had ex- ploded in the air off Lilstock one mile from the shore....
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—On the morning of the 24th of November, 1956, a message was received from the Swedish motor vessel Kristina Thorden that she had a very sick man on board.
She asked the life-boat to meet her at...
Galway Bay, Co. Galway.—At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 19th of De- cember, 1956, a telephone message was received from the Irish Lights Office asking if the life-boat would land a sick man from Slyne Head lighthouse. At 2.15 the life-boat...
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—Early in the afternoon of the 9th January, 1939, a man reported that his son and two other men who had gone out in the motor fishing boat Laura to shoot cod lines had not returned when expected.
Strong...
FOR his part in the rescue of three bathers off the Sutherland coast on the 10th August, 1967, Sergeant Andrew Lister of the Ross and Sutherland Constabulary has been accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on...
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