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MAY 12TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
At about 6.42 P.M. the coastguard reported an explosion eight to ten miles N.E. by 1/2 E. of Buckie, and the motor life-boat K.B.M.
was launched at 7.9 P.M. A strong...
Grand designs for a lifeboat station
There’s been a lifeboat station in the picturesque town of Tenby, in south west Wales, for 160 years – but it’s not always been in the same place
The station was established in 1852 by the...
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Midnight Marauder and a Dinghy
Plastic sheeting HM COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of Dover lifeboat station at 0452 on Saturday October 17, 1981, that the Dutch yacht Midnight Marauder, being sailed singlehanded, was in difficulty with a fouled...
Maria
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 7.10 on the evening of the 3rd of January, 1957, the Wyke Regis coastguard tele- phoned to say a woman had reported that her husband had put out in the twenty-feet motor boat Maria early that morning and had not returned...
African Queen
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.1 on the evening of the 6th of June, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was burning flares near the No. 5 Sea Reach buoy. At 9.25 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Sen-ice No. 30) was launched....
A Rowing Boat
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man. At 5.55 on the evening of the 27th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the steamer Clan Mclver had picked up a rowing boat with one man on board and had asked if the life-boat would take...
Victory
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 7.30 on the evening of the 16th of April, 1959, the signal station reported that red and white flares had been seen about one mile south of the pier heads. The life-boat Euphrosyne Kendal left her moorings at...
Elizabeth Victoria
Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At noon on the 3rd of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the cabin cruiser Elizabeth Victoria of Swansea was in difficulties half a mile south ofthe coastguard look-out. The life-boat William...
Susan Ann
Padstow, Cornwall. At 4.32 on the afternoon of the 17th of June, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat was in difficulties half a mile east-north-east of Trevose Head.
The no. 1 life-boat Joseph...
Universal Dipper
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire - At 9.40 a.m. on 6th June, 1967, a report was received that the motor fishing vessel Universal Dipper was aground half a mile west of Sker Point. As the vessel was high and dry it was decided to delay the...