SEPTEMBER 28TH. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND. A very strong N.N.E. wind was blowing, with a very heavy and rough sea, and as six local fishing cobles were out, the life-boat Augustus and Laura was launched at 10.40 A.M. She met five of the...
Minehead, Somerset. At 6.5 on the evening of the 20th of March, 1958, the police told the honorary secretary that a young man had fallen on to the rocky shore about three miles west of Mine- head and was seriously injured. A rescue from...
NORTH SUNDERLAND.—The steam trawler Vanguard, of Sunderland, was seen near the outer Fame Island making signals of distress, during squally weather, at about 2 P.M. on the 1st April. As the sea was too heavy for ordinary boats to put off,...
Brighton's Atlantic 21 On Exercise Near Palace Pier. - View image in PDF
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Wick, Caithness-shire, and Longhope, Orkneys. At 11.26 on the night of the 7th of October, 1958, the coastguard at Kirkwall informed the honorary secre- tary at Longhope that the trawler Ben Meidie of North Shields was ashore on the Pentland...
Wick, Caithness-shire, and Longhope, Orkneys. At 11.26 on the night of the 7th of October, 1958, the coastguard at Kirkwall informed the honorary secre- tary at Longhope that the trawler Ben Meidie of North Shields was ashore on the Pentland...
HELP FOR YACHT AFTER TOW-ROPE PARTS St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 2.55 on the afternoon of the 26th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Cergio was in tow of the French trawler Belle Garce thirteen...
Peter Skellern (inset) at the keys of a grand piano aboard a car ferry moored off Polruan quay for an evening concert in aid of the RNLI.
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THE Institution is again issuing a Life- boat Calendar. It feels that there is no better way of keeping the work of the Life-boat Service continually before the public from the first day of the year to the last, and it hopes that many...
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Dinghy and catamaran A TELEPHONE MESSAGE from HM CoaStguard at 1410 on Saturday March 28 informed Mudeford lifeboat station that a sailing dinghy had capsized on Mudeford sand bar; her mast was broken and she was in difficulties. A moderate...