Wicklow, and Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—• At 10.12 on the morning of the 8th of December, 1954, the Wicklow life- boat's motor mechanic heard a mes- sage from the Portpatrick radio station that the Swedish steamer Heimdal was drifting near...
St. Ives, Cornwall. At 10.30 on the morning of the 18th of November, 1958, the coastguard told the coxswain that a motor launch was sinking to the east of St. Ives Bay. Five minutes later the life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child...
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 12th of October, 1950, the coastguard reported a message from the Tongue lightvessel that the local trawler Volante had sunk three- quarters of a mile south of South Knock Buoy,...
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At 3.0 hi the morning of the 23rd of December 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a report had been received from a motor vessel that a trawler was ashore on Goat Island in Stornoway Harbour.
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Boston Spa ladies guild held an SOS Ball at the Majestic Hotel, Harrogate on 27 February to celebrate the RNLI's anniversary.. - View image in PDF
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NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE, and FORMBY, LANCASHIRE.—Shortly before 9 P.M. on the 12th August, a telephone message was received at New Brighton, stating that the training brig, James J.
Bibby, of Liverpool, was ashore on...
22nd April. Two boys, brothers, went into the sea from a rowing boat to recover their lost paddles, but one got into difficulties, and while his brother was trying to help him their boat drifted away. Be- fore the life-boat could reach them...
Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 9.38 on the morning of the 31st of January, 1953, the coastguard telephoned to say a man at Skellister had reported that two men had left Gletness Nesting in aten-feet rowing boat at 7.30 to attend to their fishing...
The Lizard, Cadgwith and Penlee, Cornwall, and Plymouth, Devonshire.— On the 5th March the Italian steamer Eleno sent out a wireless message that her engines had broken down, that she was drifting ashore, and wanted...
Capt. F. Rolli pointing out to a B.B.C. commentator the rock which his ship, the s.s. Isabo, struck on 27th October, 1927, at the Isles of Scilly. Miraculously, however, 32 of the crew of 38 were picked up despite high seas and fog.
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