APRIL 9TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. The Norwegian oil-tanker Beuston and the British steamer Dudley Rose sailing in convoy had been attacked by German aeroplanes, and the tanker had been set on fire. The sea was a mass of flame for 150-500 yards...
Propeller fouled AT 1050 on -Monday June 25, 1984, Pentland Coastguard contacted Wick lifeboat station's deputy launching authority with the news that a salmon coble was in difficulties off Ackergill. At 1100 the relief 48ft 6in Solent...
British Nuclear Fuels Limited's (BNF1) marine terminal provided an ideal location for the naming ceremony of Barrow's 47ft Tyne class lifeboat, on a cool sunny day in May.
The new lifeboat James Bibby—dressed... - View image in PDF
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Three saved from disabled fishing vessel in gale and severe seasLerwick lifeboat left her moorings at 0500 on Friday 4 November 1994, a little over ten minutes after first hearing from Shetland coastguard that the fishing vessel Achilles had...
23rd Sep- tember. A fishing boat was reported to be missing, but got safely in while a search was being made for her.—No rewards desired..
Tender capsizes EIGHT PEOPLE set out in a yacht tender from Donaghadee in the early evening of Monday July 13, 1981, to return to a motor cruiser anchored just outside the harbour. As the tender, which had very little freeboard, left the...
When sisters Emily and Lydia visited Newborough Beach in north Wales on a blustery February day, they had no idea they’d end their trip on Trearddur Bay’s lifeboat
Getting cut off by the tide is an incredibly easy mistake...
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South Eastern Division Catamaran in Distress A WELL-REEFED CATAMARAN making heavy weather two-and-a-half miles off St Margaret's, Kent, was seen by the Coastguard at 9.10 a.m. on Sunday, October 21, 1973. Dover lifeboat station was put...
Driven ashore THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Stornoway lifeboat station received a message from HM Coastguard at 0540 on Sunday, August 28, saying that a small foreign vessel, Vieux Copains, had gone aground at Battery Point at Stornoway Bay, one...