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Life-boat 70-002 at the Mumbles - At 4.15 p.m. on 23rd April, 1967, while rounding Mumbles Head on exercise, the coxswain of the life-boat Grace Paterson Ritchie noticed four people cut off by the tide on Lighthouse Island. There was a light...
Hiskilina
At daybreak on the 16th December a schooner was observed in distress be- tween one and two miles off Stonehaven Bay. The weather for three days had been very stormy, with high seas running, and it was feared that she would become a total...
Celestina
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—At daybreak on the 30th January the barque Celestina, of Fiume, which had been riding in the bay for some days, was seen dismasted but riding easily at her anchor. Subsequently signals were shown, and, in response to...
The Old Boathouse
with the motor life-boal Henry Frederick Swan, on her trolley at the top of the slipway.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Silver Night (1)
Douglas, and Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—At eight o'clock in the morn- ing of the 5th of September, 1951, the Douglas police reported to the Douglas life-boat station that the local fishing coble Silver Night was on the rocks at Port...
Ocean Child, and Ketch Happy Return
PORTRUSH, Co. ANTRIM.—The schooner Ocean Child, of Belfast, bound from Ayr to Lough Swilly with coal, anchored in Skerries Roads at noon on the 20th August, through stress of weather. The wind increased, and at about 4 o'clock on the...
Valerie
Selsey, Sussex. At 10.54 on the morn- ing of the 21st August, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that the tanker ship Ben Johnson of London was standing by a yacht in distress off Selsey Bill. The life-boat Canadian...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WICKLOW, IBELAND. -— The Life-boat placed here some years since having become unfit for further service has been replaced by the Institution—a fine new sailing boat of the self-righting type having, with the full concurrence of the Local...
Category: Articles
Two Longshore Boats
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—12th October, 1939. Two longshore boats had been seen flying distress signals, but one was taken in tow by a herring drifter and the other, which was at anchor with her engine broken down, refused help as her skipper...
Two Longshore Boats
OCT. 12TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
Two longshore boats had been seen flying distress signals, but one was taken in tow by a herring drifter and the other, which was at anchor with her engine broken down, refused help as her...