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Duthies, of Peterhead
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire - At 11.25 a.m. on i5th December, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor boat Duthies, of Peterhead, had sprung a leak in heavy seas just outside Peterhead bay while on passage to...
Welcome
Workington, Cumberland - At 2 p.m. on 5th February, 1967 a small boat was reported to be firing distress flares two miles to the seaward of Sailerbeck cemetery. The life-boat Thomas McCunn on temporary duty at the station, slipped her...
A Dinghy (10)
Wick, Caithness-shire - At 9.50 p.m.
on 24th July, 1967, it was learnt that an explosion and flares had been seen eight miles east of Brora. The life-boat City of Edinburgh was launched at 10.10 in a moderate south westerly...
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and figures Provisional statistics as at 29 August 1989, show that during 1989: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 2,050 times (an average of more than 8 launches a day) More than 719 lives were saved (an average of 2 people...
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An Aeroplane (153)
OCTOBER 16TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 5.30 A.M. messages were received from the coastguard that an aeroplane had caught fire and crashed into the sea a quarter of a mile off Happisburgh Beach, and at 5.46 A.M. the No. 1 motor...
An Aeroplane (118)
SEPTEMBER 7TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
At 5.25 P.M. a telephone message was received from the coastguard that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea near the East Last Buoy.
A S.W. breeze was blowing, with a...
Sven Knud
SEPTEMBER 21ST. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 6.30 in the evening the coastguard telephoned that a vessel, one and a half miles N.E. of Kinnaird Head, was flying a distress signal. A N.W. gale was blowing, with a choppy sea. The motor...
Three Years of War.
In three years of war our life-boats have rescued 4775 lives. They have rescued more lives in these three years of war than in the last thirteen years of peace. In the four years of the last war they rescued 19 lives every week. In the...
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High seas, low fuel
3 April: A father and son were bringing their yacht from Troon to Whitehaven when they ran out of fuel in a force 9, 12 miles from their destination. Workington’s Tyne class lifeboat launched at 4.45pm and headed...
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