AUGUST 21ST. - GALWAY BAY. At 2.45 in the afternoon information was received from the coast life-saving service at Casla that the motor boat Melrose, of Galway, was on the rocks in Casla Bay. A moderate south-easterly breeze was blowing,...
Stag rescued after cliff plunge The British are proud of being a nation of animal lovers. Only here would a major rescue operation be mounted to save a wild animal. But as a deer was finally pulled to safety after a 5 hour ordeal, everyone...
Autumn winner Kirsten Ferguson said during her visit to Anstruther lifeboat station: ‘My husband and I are not sailors but I grew up in Denmark and recognise how important the sea is. You hope you will never need a lifeboat, but it is good... - View image in PDF
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At 12.35 a.m. on nth August, 1967, the honorary secretary was informed that a small boat which had been towing a boat with engine trouble had slipped the tow five miles south of the breakwater.
There were three men on board...
THE BOAT SHOW at Earls Court in January went with a bang this year! First there was the bomb. Luckily no one was injured, and the way in which everyone walked quietly and calmly to the exits and cleared the building in a matter of minutes...
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On the 29th April, 1867, j the Grace Darling life-boat went off and assisted safely into harbour two fishing- smacks, which were observed in distress during very stormy weather. Had it not! been for the services of the life-boat, one...
The Coxswain of the Motor Life-boat Oldham was on watch from 10 A.M. . to 3 P.M. on the 25th April, as the Coastguard had reported that two youths had put off in a yacht and their parents were con- cerned for their safety. The yacht was in...
Filey, Yorkshire. — At 9.35 on the morning of the 9th of August, 1952, the life-boat The Cuttle was launched in a moderately rough sea with a freshening south-easterly breeze blow- ing, as the local coble Isabella was at sea. The life-boat...
Appledore, Clovelly, and Df racombe, Devon.
—On the 13th of November, 1949, all three life-boats went to the help of the Spanish steamer Monte Gurugu, which was foundering at the entrance to the Bristol Channel, and rescued...
FISHING COBLE ESCORTED TO HARBOUR Filey, Yorkshire. On the morning of the 17th January, 1962, a local fishing coble was at sea in weather which was growing worse. At 11.15 the life-boat The Isa & Penryn Milsted was launched in a...