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Alnwick
RAMSGATE.—The schooner Alnwick, of Beaumaris, bound from London for Workington with cement, ran for the harbour from the Downs for shelter while a strong W.S.W. wind was blowing, on the evening of the 5th October, but missed the entrance and...
The S.S. Skulda
LOWESTOFT. — The attention of the coxswain of the Life - boat, Samuel Plinsoll, was called to a steamer which was showing flares for a pilot, on the night of 15th May, and on looking at her he saw that her course was taking her towards the N...
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Stranded wildfowlers TWO WILDFOWLERS stranded by the flooding tide on Black Rocks, south of Troon Harbour, were reported to the honorary secretary of Troon lifeboat station by Clyde Coastguard at 0933 on Monday December 8, 1980. A third...
Florence
LIFE-BOAT STOOD BY At 8.30 a.m. on 2nd December, 1963, the coxswain obtained permission from the honorary secretary to launch the lifeboat to escort the local fishing coble Florence, because of deteriorating weather.
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Holyhead - West Division
Holyhead (or Caergybi to Welsh speakers) is the largest town on Anglesey.
The harbour was built more than a century ago and its massive breakwater, sheltering some two miles of water from the fury of storms, took nearly 30... - View image in PDF
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Fishing Boats (6)
Filey, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 8th of December, 1954, the weather worsened while local fishing cobles were at sea, and at eleven o'clock the life-boat The Isa and Penryn Milsted was launched in a flooding tide with the bowman in...
Undaunted
Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At 1.45 on the afternoon of the 27th of December, 1952, a telephone message was received from a man in Melvich that a fishing boat was in distress six miles east- north-east of Port Skerra. At 2.10 the life-boat...
Osprey
TOWED TO LOWESTOFT Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 11.30 a.m. on 24th August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a converted life-boat, Osprey, was burning red flares about one mile east-north-east of the lookout.
Kindly Light
Boulmer, Northumberland. A port was received at 10.23 a-m- on July, 1965, that the motor fishing vessel Kindly Light of Seahouses had broken down approximately two miles eastsouth- east of Boulmer. The life-boat Robert and Dorothy Hardcastle...