TAKEN TO STORNOWAY Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. At 11.15 P-m. on i2th May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Moron of Glasgow, which wished to land a sick man at Stornoway, was now off Bayble, and asked if...
The paragraph headed 'Life-boat Up Thames' on page 149 of the July Journal referred, of course, to Kingston and Surbiton. It had been planned that those mentioned should be there, but in fact they were not, and the 'mystery...
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Right:The Skegness lifeboat in an ice field in the North Sea searching for the Dutch coaster Tuko.The crew eventually found her only to discover she was not in danger.The lifeboat returned to Skegness after nine hours. - View image in PDF
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Angle, Pembrokeshire.—At 3.50 P.M.
on the 17th January, 1939, the St.
Ann's Head coastguard reported that a French schooner was in distress two miles south of the Head. She was the Eglantine, of...
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 3.21 on the afternoon of the 27th of May, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat was anchored about a quarter of a mile east of the Medusa buoy and that a fisherman was standing...
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At eight o'clock on the evening of the 30th September, 1961, the coastguard in- formed the assistant honorary secietary that a small yacht was making distress signals off Warden Ledge buoy in the West Solent. At...
JUNE 10TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. A man and a boy had landed on Dartmouth Mewstone and their boat had drifted away, but they were taken off by another boat from Dartmouth. - Rewards, £2 14s. 6d..
SICK MAN TAKEN OFF TUG Penlee, Cornwall. At 11.30 on the night of the 3rd December, 1962, it was reported that the tug Ocean Bull, which was towing the bow section of a tanker to Bilbao from Glasgow, was approaching Mounts Bay and had a sick...
Margate, Kent - On 9th July, 1969, the life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched to the help of the pilot boat Nayland towing the motor fishing vessel Marvonne. A full account of this service, for which special awards were...
The Chief Inspector of Life-boats, Lieut-Commander W. L. G. Dutton, R.D., R.N.R., greeting the Secretary General of the Norwegian Life-boat Institution, Capt. Olaf Bjb'rnstad, when the Norwegian rescue cruiser Ambassador Bay berthed at... - View image in PDF
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