Newbiggin, Northumberland.—At 7.30 in the morning of the 12th of August, 1948, the life-boat coxswain returned from sea and reported that wind and sea were rising. He kept watch. At 8.20 the coastguard rang up to say that two cobles were...
INJURED MAN LANDED FROM DRIFTING TANKER Wicklow, Co. Wicklow. At 9.45 a.m.
on Sunday the 18th of August, 1963, the honorary secretary was informed that an injured man on board the tanker Esso Guildford, 22 miles east of the...
Contents Lifeboat Services 113 XLVII Lifeboat Services, June, July and August, 1980 118 474 Going alongside . . . and survivor recovery 119 January, 1881: three weeks of storms and blizzards just a hundred years ago, by Ray Kipling, public...
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North Pier L.S.A., Torry L.S.A. and the Aberdeen life-boat.—At 10.33 on the morning of the 23rd of October, 1952, the Assistant Harbour Master reported that the steam trawler Loch Lomond, of Aberdeen, was in distress in the Navigation...
St Ives Life-Boat Off Yarmouth Isle of Wight. - View image in PDF
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W Moelfre, Anglesey. — On the 2nd August a party of six put out in a rowing boat from Benllech. They lost their oars. The owner of the boat, seeing this, went after them in another boat.
He reached them, and got aboard with...
Exercise with hovercraft: a shipping disaster occurs in the English Channel large numbers of passengers might have to be rescued and it is likely that a cross channel hovercraft will be directed to the scene to act as a floating casualty... - View image in PDF
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ALL NIGHT SERVICE TO DUTCH COASTER Holyhead, Anglesey. At half past nine on the evening of Friday the 16th of August, 1963, the Holyhead coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht in the harbour was flashing SOS signals. The...
Engine failure A FISHING VESSEL, Falke, on delivery passage from the continent to Whitby on Monday December 18, 1978, put out a 'pan' message saying that she was broken down 60 miles east by north of Flamborough Head with no power or...
Storm launch A CARGO VESSEL, Gloriosa, making for Kings Lynn was reported to the honorary secretary of Skegness lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1610 on Wednesday January 11, a day of exceptionally high tides and winds on the east coast...