The R.N.L.I's charter doe* not make provision Tor the preservation uf old lifeboats and equipment, and the National Lifeboat Museum Bristol was therefore established as an independent registered charily for this...
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The Motor Life- boat H. F. Bailey, was launched at 2.5 A.M. on 20th March, in a light N.W.
breeze, on receipt of information from the Coastguard that the s.s. Wafford, of London, was aground on Haisborough Sands. The...
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Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 9th of January, 1955, the Stornoway coast- guard telephoned that a message had been received from the Oban radio station that the steam trawler Moni- mia, of Fleetwood,...
AUGUST 9TH . - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.
At 12.29 in the afternoon a message was received from the coastguard that a Hawker Hendley target-towing aeroplane had crashed into the sea. A light northerly wind was blowing, with a...
At 3.40 P.M. on the 4th March, in consequence of signals from the Bock Lighthouse at the entrance of the Mersey, the tubular Life-boat Willie and Arthur started in tow of the steam-tug Wonder for the Pormby Spit. A moderate gale was blowing...
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Salcombe, Devon. At 5.16 on the afternoon of the 1st of September, 1958, the coastguard at Bolt Head told the honorary secretary that a woman had fallen over a cliff between Sewer Mill Cove and Bolberry Down. The life- boat Samuel and Marie...
The Sandgate coast- guard telephoned to the coxswain, at 3 A.M. on the 22nd February, that a ship had been sounding S O S on her hooter. The sea was smooth, but there was a very thick fog. At 3.28 A.M.
the motor...