At 1.30 p.m. on 7th June, 1967, Valentia Radio informed the honorary secretary that there was an injured man on board the motor vessel Iron Ore, then seven miles north west of Bray Head, who needed medical attention. The lifeboat Rowland...
FISHING BOAT TOWED IN Portrush, Co. Antrim.—At 5.30 in the evening of the 16th of June, 1947, the coastguard reported that the local fishing boat C.E. 44 was overdue. A later message said that she had last been seen one mile off the Royal...
Holyhead, Anglesey. At 10.30 p.m.
on 25th October, 1965, the coastguard reported that the Irish ship River Avoca required a doctor to attend and bring ashore a member of the crew suffering from severe and continuous stomach...
About 10 P.M. on the 15th January, the Coast- guard watchman reported that a steamer was blowing her whistle apparently close to the shore. The weather was thick at the time and nothing could be seen, but on the fog lifting a little a...
The photograph below shows the Prince of Wales at the helm of B-3 inflatable craft during a visit to Atlantic College, St. Donat's Castle, Glamorganshire, where he was shown a number of similar experimental boats.
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DECEMBER 21ST. - ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE.
At 1.45 in the afternoon the motor fishing boat Laurel put out from St. Abbs to search for another local boat, the motor fishing boat Faithful, which, with a crew of three on board,...
DUNGENESS, KENT, AND WINCHELSEA, SUSSEX.—At 3.30 A.M. on the 19th February, the s.s. Lake Michigan, of Liverpool, collided with a sailing vessel about two miles S.W. of Dungeness.
The steamer, a very large one of 9240 tons...
THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE On the 20th January, 1941, The Mumbles life-boat rescued the crew of ten of the S.S. Cornish Rose, of Liverpool.
COXSWAIN WILLIAM J. GAMMON was awarded the bronze medal.
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Launch of the Whitby New Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
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The Arun class City of Plymouth Photo: Ian Stroud. - View image in PDF
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