WOMAN RESCUED AFTER FALL FROM CLIFF Howth, Co. Dublin. At 2.25 on the afternoon of the 15th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a woman had fallen over a cliff, a few hundred yards south of the Martello tower,...
Five members of the United States Coast Guard lost their lives in an attempted rescue at the mouth of the Columbia River on the 12th of January, 1961, when three life-boats put out to the help of a crab boat. One of the life- boats, a...
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Humber, Yorkshire.—At 1.50 P.M.
on the 21st October, 1937, during a lift in a dense fog, a vessel was seen to run hard aground on the beach near the life-boat house. The wind was light and the sea slight. The motor...
Soon after mid- night on the 24th-25th February the coastguard at Portland Bill telephoned that a vessel was burning flares about three- and a half miles south-west of the Bill. A moderate S.S.E. gale was blowing, a heavy sea was running,...
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger sizes, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
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The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger sizes, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
Category: Articles
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger sizes, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
Category: Articles
GOURDON.—Early on the morning of the 16th February fifty fishing - boats proceeded to sea, but in the forenoon the wind increased considerably, the sea became heavy and about twenty of the boats, which had not then returned to port, were in...
LONGSHORE FISHING BOAT At 5.33 p.m. on 2ist October, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a longshore fishing boat had broken down in Yarmouth Roads. Other longshore boats were calling for assistance as they could not tow...
Clogher Head, Co. Louth; and Howth, Co. Dublin. At 10.44 on the morning of the 11th of February, 1960, the honorary secretary at Clogher Head received a mes- sage from Valentia radio that the motor vessel Indorita of Liverpool needed help...