Lifeboatman injured AT 05 15 ON FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1988 Mr Llew Hardy the station honorary secretary of Swanage lifeboat was advised by Portland Coastguard that the MV Renee was in difficulties in heavy seas 10 miles south south west of...
THE past year was an anxious one for the Central Committee of the Life-boat Saturday Fund and for the Life-boat Saturday Committees generally through- out the country. Owing to the appeals which were made practically in every district, city...
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STRUCK ROCK At 5.40 p.m. on 28th May, 1966, the trawler Welsh Consort struck a rock at the entrance to Castlebay Harbour when leaving. She blew her siren continuously and the life-boat R.A. Colby Cubbin No. 3 was launched at 6...
SICK MAN TAKEN OFF NORWEGIAN VESSEL IN GALE Moelfre, Anglesey. At 8.54 on the evening of the 14th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Norwegian motor vessel Sun Seahorse had a sick man on board who needed a...
Wicklow, Co. Wicklow. At 8.40 on the morning of the 14th August, 1961.
the coxswain learnt that a motor fishing boat was on the Wolves rocks three miles south-south-west of Wicklow Head and was in immediate danger. At 8.50,...
Coxswain William Crowley, who joined the Fenit, Co Kerry, lifeboat crew in 1928. He was bowman from 1936 to 1938, second coxswain from 1938 to 1942 and from 1945 to 1947 when he became coxswain, a position he held until the station closed in...
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Fog . . . one of the worst hazards for the seafarer. The prototype 47ft Tyne class lifeboat City of London underwent her slipway trials at Selsey lifeboat station in Sussex, and Selsey lifeboathouse and slipway can be seen looming in the... - View image in PDF
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MAY 16TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
During the morning a strong N.E. wind was blowing with a very rough sea. About 10.15 it was learnt that two small fishing boats were returning. Then just as the motor life-boat Mary Ann...
MR. WILLIAM HENRY JONES, the former coxswain of the New Brighton life-boat, was drowned on April 25th last, while out fishing with his son Thomas. Their boat went aground on the way to Rock Channel, off New Brighton, and Cox- swain Jones was...
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Less than 20 minutes THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Berth ILB station saw a small sailing dinghy in the vicinity of some rocks about a quarter of a mile south west of the station; it was 1440 on Wednesday, July 21. While he watched, the...