Barrow, Lancashire - At midnight on 3rd August, 1966, a red flare was reported about two miles offshore. At 12.45 a distress signal was observed from the fishing boat Luella. At 1.5 the lifeboat Cunard, on temporary duty at the station, was...
At 11.36 p.m. on 22nd August, 1966, a yacht was reported ashore near the harbour entrance. The life-boat Thomas Corbett was launched at 11.45 in an easterly breeze and slight sea. Low water was at midnight. The life-boat came up with the...
electronic aids to navigation DEPTH—by HECTA echo-sounder, as supplied to the R.N.L.I. This instrument indicates depth by pointer and scale, and illumination for night use is by virtually everlasting 'Betalite'. It has two range...
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In boisterous weather on the 18th February it was reported that a large steamer was close in shore, and was in imminent danger of stranding. Without delay the Life-boat Jones-Gibb was launched, and proceeded to the vessel. She proved to be...
Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 2.50 p.m. on 24th July, 1966, during the sea cadets' regatta, the weather conditions deteriorated and on the advice of the lifeboat coxswain the organizers decided the event should be cancelled. The wind...
MARCH 21ST. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON.
At 4.3 in the afternoon a message was received from the king’s harbour master that a vessel was sinking five miles north-east of Eddystone, as the result of enemy action.
A...
The Life- boat Dunleary was launched at 11 A.M.
on the 8th April, to the assistance of the Schooner Perseverance, of Wexford, which had been anchored, but broke adrift, owing to her cables having carried away. The Life-boat...
LAUNCH TO LIGHTVESSEL FOR SICK MAN Eastbourne, Sussex. At 11.15 on the morning of the 1st March, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary treasurer that a member of the crew of the Royal Sovereign lightvessel was sick and needed hospital...
Pier rescue The Redcar relief Atlantic 21 lifeboat Himley Hall was returning from a false alarm when the Coastguard asked the crew to investigate a report of children in difficulty at the end of Saltburn Pier. The lifeboat arrived quickly...
At 6.20 A.M.
on the 20th May information was received that the yacht Wallaroo, of Fleetwood, while taking part in a race to the Isle of Man, had had her main- mast smashed during heavy weather.
She had...