The ketch Sdbine, of Treguier, when bound from Colchester to London on the 7th April, stranded on the Buxey Sand. The northerly wind was moderate and the sea smooth, but as she was on a lee shore with the tide falling it was con- sidered...
At about 2.25 P.M. on 1st December the steam trawler St. Irene, of Hull, stranded on the Inner Binks, when returning, in dense fog, from Bear Island. She was seen from the shore and the No. 2 Motor Life-boat City of Bradford I. put...
Blyth, Northumberland. At 9.40 on the evening of the 26th of May, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a resident of Seaton Sluice had seen a red flare two miles east of Collywell Bay. Further enquiries were made, after...
The BBC recently broadcast its first Bargain Hunt programme from Northern Ireland with two competing teams from Portaferry lifeboat station. - View image in PDF
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New National Collection Of Lifeboats. - View image in PDF
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FRENCH TRAWLER TOWED OFF ROCKS Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 11.32 on the night of the 9th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a trawler was aground at the end of the north pier of Lowestoft...
NEWBIGGIN BY THE SEA.—Two cobles were in danger, a sudden gale from S.E.
having sprung np while they were working their lines, about two or three miles from the shore, on the morning of the 12th January, and the sea...
Roy and Barbara Harding at Her Naming Ceremony At Galway Bay (Photo Courtesy Lt Col Brian Clark). - View image in PDF
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Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 8.37 on the evening of the 16th of November, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red distress flares had been seen north-east of Crowlin Islands. There was a strong south-westerly wind with...