The yacht Emetic, of Dunmore East, County Waterford, while on a cruise to Cork from that port, was compelled by stress of weather to put into Dungarvan on the 27th September.
On the following day it blew a strong gale from...
FOLLOWING the two balls which were organised by the Belfast Ladies' Lifeboat Guild in the winter and spring, a Fete, lasting a fortnight, was held in June in the Bellevue Gardens, Belfast, which had been kindly lent to the Institution by...
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On the 12th December fourteen of the fishing cobles belonging to Newbiggin proceeded in the early morning to the fishing grounds. Shortly after 9.30 A.M.
a strong breeze from the west sprang up and increased to a strong...
The Life-boat Genrge Leicester was launched at 3.25 P.M. on the 2nd December, it having been reported that two fishing- boats were in danger some few miles N.E. of Minehead. A whole S. gale prevailed at the time, with a rough sea, and the...
A FORTNIGHT after her Inaugural Ceremony the new Thurso Motor Life-boat rescued her first lives.
On 28th September last, the 25,000- ton battle-ship H.M.S. Marlboroitgh was at anchor in Thurso Bay. She sent off a cutter to...
At about 4: P.M. on 10th February informa- tion was received from fishermen that the motor fishing boat Morning Star, with a crew of three on board, including John Campbell, the Life-boat Coxswain, was two hours overdue. A strong...
On the even- ing of the 29th October, a telephone message was received from the pierhead that flares could be seen west of the pier. A whole W. gale was blowing with a very heavy sea and rain. The Motor Life-boat Greater London put out at...
Port Askaig, Islay— At 11 P.M. on the 5th December, during the height of a northerly gale, a steamer, bound north, stopped and signalled by morse to the life-boat station that a doctor was wanted. The weather was very cold, with heavy snow...
NO PETROL Hartlepool, Co. Durham. — At nine o'clock on the night of the 2nd of December, 1947, the coastguard tele- phoned that a small boat was continu- ously flashing a light about one mile north-north-east of the lighthouse. A small...
Penlee, Cornwall. — At 12.40 in the afternoon of the 7th of June, 1948, the Porthleven coastguard telephoned that a man was in the sea, shouting for help, eight hundred yards east of Porthleven pier. The motor life-boat W. and...