AUGUST 25TH. - NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 9.39 at night the Seahouses coastguard telephoned that two cabin cruisers were making distress signals four miles north-north-east of Boulmer.
A slight breeze was blowing...
NOVEMBER 18TH . - FILEY, YORK-SHIRE During the afternoon two local motor boats were reported overdue, and at 5 P.M. the motor life-boat The Cuttle was launched to search for them . A light westerly wind was blowing, with a moderate swell....
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Calshot base from Coastguard tower: City of Bristol and Joy and John Wade alongside.. - View image in PDF
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On the closing of the St. Andrews life-boat station the following awards have been made: DAVID FENTON, 8 years coxswain, 9f years bowman and 22J vears a member of the crew, the COXSYVAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE and a...
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THE Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting of this excellent Society was held at the 22nd of May last, Captain the Hon the unavoidable absence of His Grace the DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH, President of the Society. Amongst those present on the occasion were...
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Barra Island lifeboat, the 52ft Burnett R. A. - View image in PDF
Colby Cubbin No. 3, her emergency air bag inlfated, after she had been capsized and had righted. - View image in PDF
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On the night of 18th March the brigantine Pandema, of Ply- mouth, bound from Cardiff to London with railway iron, struck on the Doomedbar Sands off Padstow during a strong northerly gale and heavy sea. The life-boat at Padstow was at once...
Twelve Hours in a Whole Gale.
ON August 22nd the Clacton Motor Life-boat was out for over twelve hours in a whole gale with a very heavy sea, and went to the help of two vessels.
The first was a small...
FOUR ESCORTED At 3.43 p.m. on I7th November, 1963, the east pier watchman informed the honorary secretary that several small boats were out fishing in rapidly deteriorating weather. There was a near gale from the south-west with a rough...