Left:A 10m swell looms behind the Vijaya, as seen from the lifeboat. - View image in PDF
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DR. E. A. PASK, O.B.E., has been coopted to the Committee of Management of the Institution. Dr. Pask, who was educated at Rydal School and Cambridge and studied at the London Hospital, is now Professor of Anaesthetics in the University of...
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While the fishing dandy Linnet, of Lowestoft, was riding in the bay on the 28th September, a strong gale from the N.N.W. sprung up accompanied by a heavy sea, causing the vessel to drift slowly towards the shore. At midnight a flare-light...
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Newcastle, Co. Down.—At 9.35 on the night of the 8th of August, 1951, a resident reported seeing flares. At 9.50 the life-boat William and Laura was launched in a moderate sea with a freshening north-westerly breeze blowing. Two and a half...
ENGINE FAILED Sunderland, Co. Durham.—At 8.7 on the night of the 13th of November, 1947, the coastguard reported a flare two miles east of Ryhope. Seaham life- boat was unable to launch owing to the lowness of the tide and the Sunder- land...
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wezford. — At 7.55 in the evening of the 13th of July, 1949, the Civic Guard at Rosslare Strand reported that a pleasure boat under sail, with a crew of five, had cap- sized about seven hundred yards from the...
DRIFTING LOBSTER PUNT Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At 11.20 a.m.
on 2yth July, 1964, the keeper of Ballycotton lighthouse told the honorary secretary that a lobster fishing boat with two men on board had broken down and was...
These two pictures are from sketches made by the Bowman of the St. Mary's Motor Life-boat, Mr. Harry Barrett..
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On the 7th De- cember the s.s. Carricklee, of Sunderland, outward bound from Fremington to Sunderland with a cargo of clay, got into difficulties and ran ashore on Middle Ridge. She was carrying a crew of eight, and a dog. The coastguard at...