Fishing boat overdue THE FISHING VESSEL, Fortune Hunter, expected to arrive at Ventry, Co Kerry at 1600 on the afternoon of Saturday January 12, 1985, had still not appeared by 1930. The police telephoned the honorary secretary of Valentia...
Courtmacsherry, Co. Cork.—At 10^50 in the morning of the 3rd of June, 1948, information was received that a man.
who had left harbour alone in the early hours to line-fish, had not returned.
He was seventy...
The life-boat at Cromarty has been withdrawn and the conventional life-boat at Hartlepool has been replaced with a fast IRB.
These decisions follow a review undertaken by a working party of the Committee of Management of...
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Hartlepool, Co. Durham, Runswick, and Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—4th December.
A Royal Air Force machine came down at sea at night, but could not be found, and the pilot was drowned.
—Rewards, Hartlepool, £...
MFV sinking SKEGNESS LIFEBOAT, the 37ft Oakley Charles Fred Crantham, launched at 1730 on Wednesday October 4, 1978, to go to the help of the fishing boat Fair Maid aground three miles north of the station in a dangerous position. It was a...
FROM FAIREY... THREE KINDS OF LIFEBOATS FOR THREE KINDS OF CONDITIONS.
All built to the highest standards. Standards that have made Fairey justifiably famous as lifeboat builders.
All three have all...
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At 7 A.M. on the 5th November, during a strong W.S.W. gale and very heavy sea.
signals of distress were seen on board a small schooner which was in a very dangerous position and dragging her anchors. The steam Life-boat...
If you’re a Shoreline member of the RNLI, the rate of your membership is rising for the first time in 4 years: it will now cost an additional £2. RNLI Governors are being asked to pay an additional £8 per...
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Fishing vessel skipper rescues stranded man in severe conditions The rescue of a fellow fisherman stranded on an island in Storm Force winds earned Scalloway fisherman George Williamson an RNLI Bronze medal for Gallantry. The three members...
Captain Alexander Finlayson, D.S.C., honorary secretary of the Storn- oway station branch, was appointed M.B'.E. in the 1956 New Year Honours..
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