Search for divers THE SUPPORT BOAT of a party of divers contacted the coastguard at 1355 on the afternoon of Sunday September 15, 1985, to say that two of their divers had not surfaced from their diving on the wreck of ss Teddington, about...
It would have been easy to prolong our stay at St Donat's Castle and learn more of the work of the world famous United World College of the Atlantic and its multinational student population, but time and the seasons are moving on and, if...
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100,000th life saved ON WEDNESDAY, May 28, 1975, HM Coastguard informed the New Brighton, Merseyside, honorary secretary that a boy was adrift in a rubber dinghy 200 yards off shore near Formby Point. The ILB was launched at 1435 in a...
Walton and Frinton, Essex. — About 1.50 in the afternoon of the 8th of June, 1947, the coastguard tele- phoned that a small yacht had capsized two OT three miles out, south of the Medusa Buoy, and the motor life-boat E.M.E.D. left her...
Falmouth, Cornwall. — About 6.45 in the evening, on the 23rd of April, 1950, the police reported that a man had been found unconscious at St. Just. When he recovered he had told them a com- panion was adrift in the sailing boat Shira. At...
Rhyl, Flintshire.—At 2.25 on the afternoon of the 5th of July, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the Abergele police had reported that a small boat had capsized off Llandulas, and that her crew of two were swim- ming towards Abergele....
STAINLESS STEEL ROPE FOR RIGGING NOMINAL DIAMETER STANDING RIGGING RUNNING RIGGING Milli- Inches metres (approx) MINIMUM B R E A K I N G LOAD (LBS) 5, 64" 705 1100 1590 2820 4410 6350 8646 10200 10500 .534 1200 2130 3330 4180 6550 8530...
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Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 2.16 on the afternoon of the 18th of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat had capsized near the West Princess buoy.
The life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched...
FISHING BOAT TOWED THROUGH ROUGH SEA St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 3.57 on the afternoon of the 27th October, 1962, a message was received from Niton radio station that a fishing boat had broken down with engine trouble seven miles west of...