Porthdinllaen -- West Division Porthdinllaen (non Welsh speakers can try 'Porth-incline' as a rough approximation) is home to a slipway-launched Tyne. The station's remote location, in a small cove on the north-west coast of the... - View image in PDF
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In a strong N. wind on the 18th July the hull of a new steamer—the Time, built for Melbourne—was being towed from the shipbuilder's yard to West Hartlepool in order to have her engines fitted. The hawsers carried away and the Time was...
Dinghy capsized A SMALL SAILING DINGHY capsized by the Mulberry harbour, Littlestone, was reported to Dover Coastguard at 1103 on Saturday September 6, 1980. Her crew, two young boys, were signalling for help and it was later learned that...
Rising winds RYE AUXILIARY COASTGUARD requested the launch of Rye Harbour lifeboat at 1350 on Saturday October 3 following reports that the 24ft ketch Midley Belle was heading out to sea. It was a squally afternoon with moderate confused...
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LINE FIRED TO FISHING BOAT AGROUND Humber, Yorkshire. At 12.56 early on the morning of the 19th July, 1962, the coastguard at Spurn Point informed the coxswain superintendent that red flares had been seen between a mile and two miles east of...
SCARBOROUGH, Thursday June 11, 1987: Scarborough's 37ft Oakley class lifeboat Amelia searches with the station's D class inflatable boat for a 13-year-old Grimsby schoolboy, swept from the Royal Albert Drive slipway by a large wave... - View image in PDF
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WELLS, NORFOLK.—The brig Sharon's Rose, of Whitby, bound from Shields to Dieppe with coal, was seen to run on the beach at Holkham, during a strong breeze from N.N.E. and a very heavy sea, at about 1 P.M. on the 29th October. The Eliza...
HOLY ISLAND.—At 2 P.M. on the 16th of March a large three-masted schooner was seen, during a cessation of blinding snow storms, lying in for the land, and nearing a dangerous reef of rocks near the harbour bar, named the Parten...