Aberdovey, Gwynedd June 2 (twice), 15, July 12, 22 (twice), 26, 28, 29, August 15, 26 and 30 Abersoch, Gwynedd June 22, 27, July 21, 30, August 2 (twice), 7, 9, 16, 23 and 26 Aberystwyth, Dyfed July 6, 29, August 19 and 29 Aldeburgh, Suffolk...
Category: Services
Cox- swain Kelly of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 1 on the 23rd March saw a schooner miss stays and get into a dangerous position near the rocks beneath the lime kilns at Port St. Mary.
A strong southerly breeze was...
Chips off the old block THE To celebrate 35 years in the fish and chip business, proprietors of the Round 'O' Fish Bar in Arbroath, Tony and Elaine Atkinson, offered customers a half price meal for a day and donated the takings of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
GROUNDED YACHT THE Eastney, Hampshire, ILB on 18th June, 1972, went to the aid of the yacht Florya and rescued three people.
At 1 p.m. on that day Hayling Island Coastguard reported that a large yacht was standing into...
Brighton's Atlantic 21 lifeboat on exercise in heavy seas. The photograph was taken by Alan Young, helmsman of the lifeboat for the service described below.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Broken steering ON SATURDAY April 28, at 0700, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Port St Mary lifeboat station that a fishing vessel, Anjonika, was disabled 13 miles to the south east. She had been on passage, in ballast, from...
At 11.9 p.m. on 5th March, 1967, information was given that three men who were climbing to the west of South Stack were overdue. Their car had been found in the South Stack car park. The Holyhead C.R.E. Company and mountain rescue teams had...
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 11.10 in the morning of the 17th of February, 1948, the motor life-boat S.G.E. put out, with a doctor on board, to the s.s.
Coral Sea, of New York, bound in ballast from Southampton to New...