FEBRUARY 7TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.
Shortly after 9 in the evening information was received through the coastguard that a vessel had struck a mine off Workington, and the motor life-boat Joseph Braithwaite was launched at...
At 12.30 A.M. on the 18th December, the smack Alicia brought news of a vessel having gone ashore on the Kentish, Knock Sand. The Life-boat Bradford at once proceeded, in tow of the harbour steamer Vulcan, through the Cudd Channel, and...
Launches 30. Lives rescued 19.
OCTOBER 6TH. - PORT ERIN, AND PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. Shortly after two in the morning the Ramsey coastguard informed both life-boat stations that a ship was in distress W.S.W. of the...
Category: Services
around and about the RNLI Lionel 'steps in' and saves the day… Lionel Blair, showbiz personality and dancer, stepped in to draw the lifeboat lottery at RNLI Open Days at 1200 on Saturday 2 August. Comedian, Jim Davidson, who was...
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COBLE TAKEN IN TOW TO HARBOUR Filey, Yorkshire. At nine o'clock on the morning of the 29th March, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that ten local fishing cobles were at sea in deteriorating...
MARCH 15TH. - ABERDEEN. At 6.25 in the evening information came from the flag officer in charge at Aberdeen, through the coastguard, that H.M. Corvette Hyderbad had gone aground on the north breakwater in Navigation Channel and the No. 1...
The Life-boat Elinor Soget was launched at 3 A.M., on the 7th November, while a moderate to strong gale was blowing from N.W., accompanied by a heavy sea, and saved the crew of four men from the Ketch H. F. Bolt, of Appledore, coal-laden,...
On board the ketch Mystery, of Glasgow, which was towed to safety by the Weston-super-Mare motor life-boat on 9th December, 1937, with a man, his wife and baby on board. - View image in PDF
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ST. IVES, CORNWALL On the 24th October, 1945, the St. Ives life-boat rescued two persons from the ketch Minnie Flossie, of Bideford.
COXSWAIN WILLIAM PETERS was awarded the silver medal..
Category: Medals
Patrol vessel holed IN EASTERLY GALES early on Thursday January 31, 1980, fishery patrol vessel Switha, bound for Leith, ran aground on the rocks near Herwit Buoy in the Firth of Forth, a mile south east of Inchkeith Island. She was holed...