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Centurity

Date: March 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 379

Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 13th of December, 1956, the harbour master received a message from the motor vessel Centurity of London, which had anchored in the harbour because of bad weather, that her crew...

A Ship’s Boat

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

JANUARY 3RD. - WALMER, KENT. At 5.49 in the evening the Deal coastguard reported red flares east-by-north about four miles distant. A south-west gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and squalls of rain and sleet. The motor life-boat Charles...

Paragon

Date: June 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 372

Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 5.40 on the afternoon of the 27th of February, 1955, a flare was seen off Ireland's Eye. At six o'clock the life-boat R.P.L. was launched. The sea was choppy, a fresh southerly breeze was blowing, and the tide...

Aries

Date: February 1877

Volume: 10

Issue: 103

SWANAGE.—On the llth November the Swanage Life-boat, Charlotte Mary, was the means of saving the smack Aries, of Cowes. That vessel was dragging her anchors in Swanage Bay, when the Lifeboat went to her aid through a heavy sea, and placing...

Danube

Date: February 1882

Volume: 11

Issue: 123

WEST HARTLEPOOL.—On the 2nd April, 1881,at about 11 A.M.,on observing the brigantine Danube, of Guernsey, which was about to enter the Hartlepool East Harbour, hoist a flag of distress, the West Hartlepool No. 1 Life-boat Rochdale proceeded...

None

Date: June 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 334

Barra Island, Hebrides.—On the 21st January, 1938, the medical officer at Castlebay received an urgent call to the neighbouring island of Vatersay. A strong westerly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea, and no ordinary boatcould make the...

Finlandia

Date: June 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 404

LIFE-BOAT AND TUGS TO HELP OF DUTCH VESSEL St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 4.45 on the morning of the 4th March, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Dutch vessel was in distress, and though the position of the...

District Inspector, -- O.B.E.

Date: March 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 23

Captain Harold G. Innes, R.N., who retired as a district inspector on account of ill health in 1929, and returned to the Service in 1939, acting as inspector of the Western District throughout the war, has been made an O.B.E., for his...

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Fairy Queen

Date: November 1897

Volume: 16

Issue: 186

WEXFORD.—While the fishing fleet were returning, on the 2nd March, a strong gale having suddenly sprung up from S.S.W. with a rough sea, one of the boats was observed to fly signals of distress, and another, with her sails blown away,...

Morcel

Date: February 1904

Volume: 19

Issue: 211

CARDIGAN.—In the early morning of the 16th March, while a strong gale was blowing, signals of distress were seen from a ketch in Cardigan Bay.

The Life-boat Lizzie and Charles Leigh Clare was promptly launched and went to...