Search for missing vessel locates wreck A total of 21 boats, including the Scarborough, Filey and Whitby lifeboats, took part in the search for the fishing vessel Sincere with two persons on board, when it failed to return to harbour on 28...
NOVEMBER 21ST. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 8.20 P.M. the coastguard reported that an S.O.S. call had been received from the S.S. Nord Est II, of Belfast, a former French vessel, which, laden with petrol for Dublin, was aground on the...
Lowesloft: When on August 30 Lowestoft lifeboat went to the help oj Jolie Brise, returning from Oslo to Harwich on the second leg of the 1978 Tall Ships Race, it was Thomas Knott's last service as coxswain . . . photograph by courtesy of... - View image in PDF
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Coaster on fire A TELEPHONE CALL from Belfast Pilot Station to HM Coastguard at 1300 on Tuesday April 10 reported a fire aboard the Finnish coaster Inio of Helsinki about a mile and a half north east of Mew Island. A firefighting tug,...
Eric Tevison, a medical student of Wanstead, and Jennifer Jackson of Chigwell cycled by tandem from John O''Groats to Lands End to raise funds for the RNLI in 'The Year of the Lifeboat'.
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OCTOBER 3RD. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 11.20 in the morning the Carne coast life-saving service telephoned that a schooner was ashore at Churchtown, Carnsore Point. The weather was calm, but there was a dense fog. The motor...
These days it is hard to imagine lifeboats propelled by anything but powerful engines. Back in the autumn of 1905 though, the then Life-boat Journal was hailing the introduction of marine • - ** *i***** " .xT- ~~ -'*'- 100...
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THE abstracts from the Wreck Register for the year ended the 30th June 1885, which, owing to circumstances, were not published by the Board of Trade in 1886, have now been issued, and are full of interesting matter. We propose, in ac-...
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(above) The righting demonstrations proved as popular as ever - here an Atlantic regains her composure as the air bag inflates and the crew wait to board again. And, yes, that is a Mr Blobby floating on the left of the photo, having been... - View image in PDF
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LYTHAM.—On the 13th December, 1859, the brigantine Robert and Henry, of Dundalk, ran ashore on the Horse Bank, at the entrance of the River Mersey; intelligence being conveyed to Lytham of the disaster, the Institution's life-boat at...
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