Signals of dis- tress were seen shortly after 7 P.M. on the 19th October from the Barber Sands, and in response the No. 2 Life-boat Nancy Lucy was launched. When near the sands the brigantine Primula of Istorp, was seen with heavy seas break...
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. . . DURING A WINTER OF UNUSUAL FEROCITY IN THE EARLY HOURS of Christmas Eve 1977 Kilmore lifeboat, the 37ft Oakley Lad Murphy, and St Ives lifeboat, the 37ft" Oakley 'Frank Pen/old...
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Crashed helicopter FALMOUTH COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of St Mary's lifeboat station. Isles of Scilly, at 1250 on Saturday July 16. 1983, that the British Airways helicopter G-BEON was overdue at St Mary's...
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 106 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 78 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to September 30th, 1931 62,687 Farewell! By Sir George Shee, Secretary of the...
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ABERDOVEY, MERIONETHSHIRE ; ABER- SOCH, CARNARVONSHIRE ; ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE ; GHIMSBY, LINCOLNSHIRE ; LITTLEHAMPTON, SUSSEX ; RLIOSNEIGIR, ANGLESEY ; SIIOREHAM, SUSSEX ; ST.
AGNES, SCILLY ISLANDS ; SOUTHEND, CAXTYRE ;...
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AT 6.35 on the evening of the 9th of August, 1958, the honorary secretary of the St. Ives life-boat station, Captain W. H. H. Treloar, learnt from the police that four people needed help in Smugglers' Cave near Hellsmouth. The cave lies...
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At about 6 P.M. on the 25th August several large herring boats and a yacht were to be seen making for port, and two miles N.E. of the pier head the yacht was dismasted. A nasty sea was running and it was blowing very fresh from the north—at...
APRIL 7TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
At 4.10 P.M., the coastguard informed the life-boat station that a sailing barge bound north had not been reported for some time.
A northerly pale was blowing with a very...
Scotland South Division Two lifeboats capsize and right A DANISH CARGO VESSEL, Lone Diinia, in distress six miles north west of Skerryvore Lighthouse was reported by HM Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Barra Island lifeboat station at...
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POOLE.—This Life-boat station has recently been completely renovated, the boathouse and slipway having been altered and improved, and the Life-boat, which was no longer fit for further i service, having been replaced by another and larger...
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