Fast on West Barrow A RED FLARE was sighted in the vicinity of South West Swin Buoy by MV Hounslow at 0110 on Saturday, August 16, 1975.
Two minutes later a second flare was seen and reported to Warden Point Coastguard via...
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 7.38 P.M. on the 6th April the Donna Nook coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore north of Donna Nook beacon.
A gentle breeze was blowing, with a slight swell, but there was a very dense fog. The...
AT the Annual Meeting the Prince of Wales was able to announce that, as a result of his appeal to the big passenger liner companies three years ago, no fewer than five new Motor Life-boats were now on the coast, the gifts of six of these...
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The Last 18Ft 6In Mclachlan (Left). - View image in PDF
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Late Port Errol Life-Boat Converted Into A Yacht. - View image in PDF
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WE have in previous numbers of the Life-boat Journal given accounts of the Life-saving Institutions of France and Germany, and have referred to those in other maritime countries of Europe. We feel sure that equal interest will be felt in a...
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KINGSTOWN.—On the 30th of September the brig Leonie, of Charlotte-Town, Nova Scotia, mistaking the Vanguard wreck-lightfor the Kish Light, ran into shoal-water off Bray, 7 miles south of Kingstown, where, after daylight, the master anchored...
I. By JOAN PATUICIA ROSE JEFFERIS (13), The Circus Church School, Portsmouth, Hants Why I should like to be a Life-boatman.
THERE are many noble callings in life in which workers have lit lamps of self-sacrifice,...
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CHINESE SEAMEN RESCUED Sundeiiand, Durham.—At 1.40 in the afternoon of the 18th of March, 1947, the Sunderland coastguard telephoned that the Seaham coastguard had re- ported that the motor vessel Diloma, a tanker, had struck submerged...