Arbroath, Angus. At 1.45 on the after- noon of the 28th September, 1961, three local fishing boats, Snowflake, Our Boys and Evening Star, were approaching the harbour in a strong south-south-easterly wind and a rough sea. Because of the...
St. Marys, Scilly Islands - At 9.43 a.m. on 21st October, 1968, the honorary secretary learnt that the captain of the tanker Oscilla was in a coma and had to be brought ashore.
The life-boat Guy and Clare Hunter, with a...
The sea runs high, and surging foam Is spent against the rocky shore, The moon sails on amidst the clouds That surge across the angry sky; No voice is heard, until one word Is called by lone maroon. 'Distress'.
The...
Category: Poetry
Eastney, Hampshire. At 4.53 p.m., on 29th June, 1965, the coastguard inforged the honorary secretary* that a sailing dinghy had capsized i^ooo yards off Eastney Beach. At 5 o'clock the inshore rescue boat launched in a gentle...
SHIPS IN COLLISION At 11.30 p.m. on 22nd October, 1965, the coastguard reported that two vessels had been in collision in fog between the Q.2 and the Bar Ship; one, the m.v.
Salaverry, a passenger ship, was badly holed. The...
Dunbar, East Lothian - At 2.25 p.m.
on iQth January, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Leon Laura required assistance one and a half miles north east of Dunbar. The life-boat...
AUGUST 11TH. - PORT ASKAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE. At the request of the doctor on the Island of Colonsay the motor life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth was launched at 11.45 A.M. in a strong westerly wind, and brought from Colonsay to Islay an expectant...
ON THE ROCKS At 1.15 a.m. on nth July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that he had seen a red flare north of Trevor Point. There was a very rough sea with gale force west-south-westerly winds.
The tide had...
IRELAND Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At 6.20 a.m.
on 2yth October, 1964, the coxswain was told by a crew member of the Dutch fishing vessel Van Maria that another member of his crew had gone out in a rubber dinghy but had not...
Hartlepool, April 26, 1987: Crew member Tom Price splashes champagne over Hartlepool's new Atlantic 21 lifeboat Burton Brewer, following her naming ceremony.
The boat was provided from an appeal in Burton-on-Trent,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs