APRIL 3RD - 4TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. At 11.34 at night a message was received from the Carnoustie coastguard that a vessel was believed to be ashore on Bell Rock, and at midnight the motor life-boat Mona was launched. A strong N.E. wind...
Four calls SHOEBURYNESS COASTGUARD sighted a fishing boat off West Shoebury Beacon exhibiting a distress signal at 1550 on Monday, June 6, 1977. The auto-klaxon to Southend-on-Sea ILB boathouse was sounded and the duty crew prepared to...
JANUARY DURING January life-boats were launched on service 30 times but rescued no lives.
FIREMEN TAKEN TO BELGIAN TRAWLER Selsey, Sussex. At 8.20 on the morn- ing of 4th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary...
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OCTOBER DURING October life-boats were launched on service 56 times and rescued 37 lives.
TWO YACHTS ESCORTED TO MEVAGISSEY Fowey, Cornwall.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 1st of October, 1956, the Polruan...
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While a strong gale was blowing from W.N.W., accompanied by a heavy sea and heavy rain at intervals, on the 27th October, the Coxswain of the Lifeboat and Officer of Coastguard on the look-out observed a light from a vesselstranded on the...
Greater London.
Film premiere attended by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent at the Odeon Theatre, Leicester Square. (A full account appeared in the last issue of The Life-boat.) BATTERSEA.—The Rev. P. H. Jones, C.B.E., R.N....
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The Lifeboat D class lifeboat D-479 M*Y Buili 1995 Cost £11,275 Funding Gift of Or May Road ThaCftw Helmsman Amoi Bewick tor his 'outstanding skill, calm leadership and unswerving deter mi na lion lo perform a hfesavmg service'...
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On the morning of the 5th December, the motor fishing coble Primrose, of Whitby, was seen to be in difficulties about a mile E.S.E.
from Whitby Rock Buoy, and,the Motor Life-boat Margaret Marker Smith was launched at 11.25...
Whitby, Yorkshire.—Early on the morning of the 15th April the local motor fishing boats Prosperity, Progress, Endeavour, Flying Spray and Success put out to fish. A nasty sea was running. Later on it grew worse and broke heavily on the bar....
The local motor fishing boats Pilot Me and Success put to sea early on the morning of the 5th December in moderate weather. Later the wind and sea rose, and as it had been raining heavily since the previous night, the river was running...