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Catherine Shaun, of Fleetwood
Caister, Norfolk - At 8.45 p.m. on 22nd July, 1968, a life-boat helperinformed the motor mechanic that a radio message from the trawler Catherine Shaun of Fleetwood had been intercepted, reporting that she had an injured man on board who...
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The Mumbles, Glamorgan. At 3.50 on the afternoon of the 30th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the s.s. Fordfield had sighted a floating body a mile and a half from Helwick Passage buoy and that she would stand...
Senex Fidelis
Five saved as fishing vessel drags ashore in storm force winds Arocky cove backed with high cliffs is no place to be when a severe onshore gale, gusting to Storm Force, is pounding the coast, but that is exactly the situation Coxswain Pat...
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Adrift In the Irish Sea. Search By Seven Life-Boats
ON the night of the 15th November, 1937, the three-masted auxiliary schooner Invermore, of Dublin, left New Ross, Co. Wexford, for Liverpool, with a cargo of pit props. She carried a crew of five. During the following night, when she was off...
Category: Services
Loch Alsh
SALTBURN-BY-THE-SEA, YORKSHIRE. — On the 29th November, this coast was visited by the most severe gale experienced for many years past. The wind had been gradually increasing from the previous day; until at S A.M. it was blowing a perfect...
Comedies of a Cow—And a Burning Chimney
THE false alarms which call out life- boats are very varied. On the 26th October last, with a gale blowing, the Plymouth motor life-boat put out— because a cow had gone wandering.
At 6.30 in the evening the coastguard at...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (80)
OCTOBER 30TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At 6.49 A.M. the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea about two miles east of Sheringham, and a few minutes later the coastguard rang up again to say that he...
A Stormy Passage
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 124 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 50 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to August 31st, 1934 63,721 A Stormy Passage.
By COMMANDER J. M. UPTON,...
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
EASTBOURNE.—THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a new and additional Life-boat station at Eastbourne in order to strengthen the Life- boat service on that coast, the Local Committee unanimously approving of the formation of...
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