Wicklow - At 11.25 P-m- on 25tn August, 1966, the coxswain was told that a man had fallen overboard from a yacht.
The life-boat J. W. Archer left her moorings at 11.50 in a gentle easterly breeze and a choppy sea. It was...
About 8 o'clock on the evening of the 16th May a boat was noticed on the north side of Aberdovey bar, riding in a most dangerous position with a moderate gale blowing from N.W. As the boat was in immediate danger the Life - boat William...
PALLING-BY-THE-SEA, NORFOLK. — On the 1st December, at 4 P.M., the British Workman Life-boat proceeded, during a strong E.S.E. wind and heavy sea, to the aid of a vessel which was signalling for assistance. She proved to be the barque Onward...
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 10.25 on the morning of the 23rd of May, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Marie Leach, with a crew of three, appeared to be in difficulties five miles north-west of...
LIFE-BOAT CHECKS SAFETY OF YACHT Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At ten to nine on the evening of Tuesday the 20th August, 1963, the coxswain received a telephone message from the honorary secretary that the Rhyl coastguard had a small yacht...
PETERHEAD, N.B.—On the morning of the 1st August several of the fishing-boats of this port were placed in danger by a strong breeze from the N.E., and the Life- boat People's Journal, No. 1, put to sea to render assistance. She was...
ROGERSTOWN, Co. DUBLIN.—In Feb- ruary 1873, a vessel was wrecked near this place, and the crew were nearly all day in the rigging before they could be rescued, there being no Life-boat at hand; the exposure resulted in the death of one of...
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OCT. 19TH. - CLOVELLY, DEVON, AND PADSTOW, CORNWALL. A message was received that a R.A.F. aeroplane had come down in the sea, and the Clovelly life-boat was launched at 10.20 P.M. to search between Hartland Point and Bideford. A N.E. wind...
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DECEMBER 2ND. - PORT ASKAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE. At 3.11 A.M. the Kilchoman coastguard reported a vessel ashore in the Sound of Islay. The weather was fine, with a light S.W. wind and a calm sea. The motor life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth was launched...