LIFE-BOAT AND HELICOPTER IN SEARCH FOR DINGHY Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 12.50 on the afternoon of the 19th March, 1962, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from the Great Orme's Head lighthouse that a dinghy...
St. Abbs, Berwickshire.—Early on the morning of the 22nd of March, 1955, the local fishing boat True Vine put out with a crew of four. She had not returned by mid-day, and at 12.35, half an hour before high water, the life- boat W. Ross...
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Again on the 19th January, at 10.15 P.M., during a moderate gale from the N.E., the Life-boat Bradford and harbour steamtug Aid proceeded to the assistance of the ship Attila, of Newcastle, which had lost her fore and main masts, and was...
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 10.30 on the morning of the 19th of December, 1954, a message was received from Mizen Head asking if the life-boat would take a relief keeper and stores to the Inish- tearaght Rock lighthouse. At eleven o'clock...
JULY MEETING SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, ESSEX About 3.50 in the afternoon of the 25th May, 1940, a small rowing boat, with a man and a woman on board, capsized when they were changing seats about 400 yards off shore. They succeeded in reaching a boat...
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On the 26th January a specialist was urgently needed, as the son of the lightkeeper was very ill. The only way of getting him was by sending the motor life-boat William Evans to fetch him from the mainland, and this was done. The life-boat...
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands.—At 3.25 on the afternoon of the 10th of August, 1957, the Telegraph coastguard report- ed that a sailing dinghy had capsized between St. Mary's and St. Martin's and that two boys were in the water.<...
IN 1890 we had the pleasure of placing before our readers full detailed accounts of the first steam Life-boat ever built.
This vessel was a hydraulic steamboat built for the Institution by Messrs. E. and H. Green, of...
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OCT. 18TH. - WHITBY, AND RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE. The coastguard reported a vessel firing signals six miles north of Whitby.
A moderate N.E. wind was blowing with a choppy sea. At 7.45 P.M. the No. 1 motor life-boat was...