DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN On the 21st November, 1940, the Donaghadee life-boat rescued seven of the crew of the S.S. Coastville, of Liverpool, and on the 6th December, 1940, landed nine of the crew of the S.S. Hope Star, of...
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Portrush, Co. Antrim.—At 11.17 on the night of the 24th of July, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a Sea Cadet whaler from Portsmouth, with a crew of three, was under sail about one mile north of Ramore Head, but was drifting seawards...
MUDEFORD inshore rescue boat and a R.A.F. helicopter were called out on I9th July to search for two aqualung divers who had failed to surface after diving between the Groyne, Hengistbury Head, and Christchurch Ledge buoy. The divers were...
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JANUARY 21ST. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
An aeroplane was thought to have crashed into the sea, but she had only dived very steeply. - Rewards, £37 0s. 6d..
Would you ask people to risk their lives for an old set of spark plugs? Last year our lifeboat crews answered 2,608 distress calls.
In some cases they risked their lives to rescue people from pleasure craft that had broken...
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Early on the morning of the 12th October the motor yacht Bunts, bound from Scapa for London, with a crew of three, broke down about eight miles S.S.E. of Scurdy- ness. She had no sails on board and was helpless. A strong W.S.W. breeze was...
On the 14th January there was an urgent call from Inisheer, the most southerly of the Aran Isles, for a doctor. A heavy sea was running and a gale was threat- ening. No boat could be found to venture out, so the motor life-boat William....
RAMSGATE.—On the 26th January, at 7.45 A.M., during a moderate wind from the N., a barque was observed ashore on the North Sand Head, Goodwin Sands.
The harbour steam-tug Vulcan and Lifeboat Bradford were immediately...
"RADIO LONDON" CAPTAIN ILL At 9.55 a.m. on 20th August, 1965,11 was learnt that a message had been received from the Harwich agents of the M.V.
Galaxy, the transmitting station known as Radio London, saying the...
Padstow, Cornwall. At 6.22 on the evening of the 8th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a body had been reported floating three hundred yards north- north-east of Trevose lighthouse. No other boat being...