TOW LASTED 13 HOURS AT 8.10 a.m. on 11 March, 1972, the St. Mary's, Scilly Isles, life-boat station learnt that the yacht Moronel had requested assistance 13 miles from Bishop Rock. The maroons were fired at 8.22...
Cruise liner in crisis Six lifeboats launched on 6 May 2006 to the help of The Calypso (pictured). The 135m liner and 708 passengers were 15 miles south of Beachy Head, East Sussex, when fire broke out. Tyne classes MaxAitken III from...
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Search and rescue A YACHT IN DISTRESS somewhere to the south west of South Stack Light was reported to the honorary secretary of Holyhead lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 0908 on Sunday September 4, 1977; her exact position was not known...
Jan. 8.—Voted 31. to six men for putting off in a coble and bringing ashore the crew of two men from the collier Diamond, of Scarborough, which was dragging her anchors in a strong gale from the N., and a heavy sea, on the 18th...
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The Busiest Year for Nineteen Years.
THE year 1935 was for the life-boat service the busiest for nineteen years.
There were 378 launches of life-boats to vessels in distress. To find a larger number one...
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On the 14th May, at about 11 P.M., signals of distress were shown from a vessel in Carnarvon Bay, apparently at a distance of seven or eight miles from Porthdinllaen. The wind was blowing a strong gale from the N.N.E., and a heavy sea was...
On the 6th December the schooner Laura Ann, of Faversham, was in a dangerous position at the entrance to the Humber. The Life-boat Manchester Unity proceeded to her assistance, and helped the crew to get up her anchors, after which she was...
CARDIGAN.— The Coastguard on the look out at Penrhyn Castle observed a light in the bay, apparently shown by a vessel in distress, while a strong gale was blowing and a very heavy sea running on the night of the 23rd March. The crew of the...
Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 9.36 on the morning of the 18th of May, 1960, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that as the local fishing coble Margaret Ann was still at sea in a fresh north-easterly wind he was going to the north...