The Coxswain of the Life-boat Mark Lane having been informed by a coastguardsman that a steamer was aground on the Cross Sand, while the wind was blowing from W., accompanied by a moderate sea and thick weather, on the 7th June, he at once...
Mountbatten of Burma, prototype of the experimental intermediate lifeboat RNLI Medina 35, on early trials. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Ambrose Greenway. - View image in PDF
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Jan. 6 —A. man put off in a boat from Tenby and rescued two of the crew of the fishing-b at Rajah, of Brixham, which stranded outride Tenby Harbour in a moderate gale from S.E.
and a very heavy sea.—Reward,...
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At 6.55 p.m. on I5th July, 1967, it was reported that a boat was in difficulties off Bray. The life-boat John F. Kennedyslipped her moorings at 7.6 in a fresh south easterly wind and a choppy sea.
The tide was ebbing. The...
Naming of the New Anstruther Life-Boat The Doctors. - View image in PDF
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During a strong northerly gale on the 30th I January, the s.s. Cedric, of Landskrona, brought up in South wold Bay, and next morning signalled that she wanted a doctor, or a boat to land a man who had met with an accident. ...
St. Helier, Jersey. At 3.43 p.m. on i6th January, 1966, Jersey Radio informed the duty harbour official that the States of Jersey pilot cutter La Rosiere had struck a rock near Corbiere Lighthouse on the south west corner of the island and...
Pamela Black presents £75 collected by 12 children to Captain I. C.
Bayliss, Methil harbour master and chairman of Buckhaven and Methil branch. The other helpers were Susan McGarrity, Ann Williamson, Fiona Thomson,... - View image in PDF
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OCTOBER 11TH. - WHITBY, AND SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At 4.35 in the morning the Whitby coastguard reported a message from Cullercoats wireless station that the S.S.. Glamorganbrook, of London, bound for the Isle of Wight from Blyth, was...
Borth: Helmsman Ronald Davies was accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum for the rescue on August 18 of two people trapped by the tide at the foot of cliffs. The photograph shows the area at low tide: x marks the position... - View image in PDF
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