Wicklow.—At 3.30 in the afternoon of the 10th of January, 1949, the local herring boats went to sea, but were overtaken by bad weather, and an hour later put back. One was missing, and at 5.5 the life-boat Lady Kylsant was launched. A...
PORT LOGAN, N.B.—At 9.30 A.M. on the 31st January, during a strong S.E. gale, the galliot Gateforth, of Whithorn, bound from Ayr to Whithorn with coal, was atanchor in the bay, and showed a signal for assistance. An open boat, with the...
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—On the morning of the 24th June the coastguard at Kinnaird Head telephoned that two vessels were ashore near Cairnbulg. They were the steam drifters Whitelink Bay, of Fraserburgh, and Gamrie Bay, of Banff, which...
• Rescue At Sea by John M. Waters, Jr. Captain U.S. Coast Guard (D. Van Nostrand Company Inc.) This well produced and strikingly illustrated book written by a senior officer of the U.S. Coast Guard makes fascinating and absorbing reading of...
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Crew overboard for 35 minutes in darkness and heavy seas Michael Weeks, a crew member aboard Appledore's Tyne class all-weather lifeboat spent some 35 minutes in the water, in darkness and heavy seas, on 3 May 1994 when he was thrown...
Rear Admiral Sir Edmund Irving, C.B., F.R.S.A., a member of the Committee of Management, has been made a K.B.E. in the New Year Honours list.
Mr. W. R. Edwards, honorary secretary of the Ramsey, Isle of Man, life-boat...
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JAN. 7TH - CLACTON-ON-SEA. AND WALTON AND FRINTON ESSEX. At about 4.38 P.M. the Clacton coastguard telephoned that a barge off Holland Sluice appeared to be in difficulties. Soon afterwards they reported that she was burning flares for help,...
Working for your sport Who negotiates in the EEC on behalf of 3.1 million UK yachtsmen, powerboaters and windsurfers, implements safety standards, runs the small ships register, trained over 85,000 people last year in navigation and boat...
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Knife to see you? •opte in rroubte are usually pleased to see a lifeboat, but not so for a man ^B to evade the police in Heme Bay in August. Holding a knife, he cycled, onto the sea and swam out. The man, who was not training for a...
The naming of Lady of Lancashire FLEETWOOD'S NEW 44' WAVENEY LIFEBOAT by HRH The Duke of Kent PRESIDENT OF THE RNLIA LARGE CROWD lined the seafront at Fleetwood to see HRH The Duke of Kent name the new lifeboat. The early evening sun...
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