JUNE 5TH. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE.
At 6.40 in the evening the coastguard reported a vessel in difficulties five miles away, east of Bridlington coastguard station. She had a heavy list and her crew were abandoning her. A...
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AT 8.30, in the evening of 21st November, 1927, the Motor Life-boat at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston was launched in response to a wireless message received from s.s. Trent that help was urgently required to save the lives of the crew of the...
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THE general public, and especially those who live or have their business in the metropolis, have recently experienced the bewildering effects of fog on land, and will, perhaps, on that account have a sympathetic interest in what is being...
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In hurricane force winds, Ballycotton lifeboat crew launched to the aid of eight men on a lightship near Daunt Rock. 70 years on, it's a feat of courage and endurance still seen as one of the most demanding rescues in RNLI...
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From South Rock COASTGUARD ORLOCH informed Cloughey/ Portavogie lifeboat station at 1135 on Monday, February 2, that the captain of South Rock Lightvessel had had a heart attack. As it proved impossible to get a doctor to the harbour quickly...
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Cork.—At 5.40 in the afternoon of the 6th of November, 1947, Mrs. M. L.
Blake, of Ballycotton picked up a wireless call from the...
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STATION FLEET ABERDEEN ABERDOVEY ABERSOCH ABERYSTWYTH ACHILL ISLAND ATTH ALDERNEY AMBLE ANGLE ANSTRUTHER APPLEDORE...
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AT nine in the evening of 4th Novem- ber, 1937, many people in the village of Newburgh, Aberdeenshire, heard the sound of a ship's siren, and thought that it must come from a ship dangerously close to the shore. A southerly gale was...
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SOME years ago reference was made in The Life-boat to letters which had been received from the Gold Coast, in one of which the writer, evidently under the impression that the Institution was a general stores, asked for its catalogues, and...
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