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Through the worst
Dunbar’s lifeboat and crew took a hammering on their way to saving two lives in May – would their resilience win the day?
Jonas and Ingrid Åkerblom had built the yacht Ouhm themselves. They planned to take...
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A Fishing Vessel
ANXIOUS ABOUT SON Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 12.30 p.m. on 2Oth June, 1964, a woman caller, Mrs. Moore, telephoned the honorary secretary to say that her eleven year old son and his uncle, who had put to sea together in a 26-foot...
A Schooner The Prospect, of Berwick on Tweed
On the 1st Jtntnays 1861, another dchot«er, th* Prospeet, of Berwick-on- f weed, laden with colds; wifll ft crew of Sii Sse'fi, wta observed at anfeiof & the' Cio^uet Roads, apparently in a sinking state* and close to the...
Yachts and Dinghies (2)
A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...
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Rising tide RAMSEY COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Silloth lifeboat station at 1255 on Thursday February 11 that a man was stuck in the salmon nets at Dornock, two miles east of the River Annan, on the north side of the Solway...
Johnno
Three saved from motor ship aground and awash off beachawash off beach Whitstable and Sheerness lifeboats were launched after the motor ship Johnno broadcast a Mayday on 12 January 1995. The vessel, on passage from the Isle of Grain to...
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Hurricane-force winds as two lifeboats search for missing diversThe rescue of two skin divers in appalling weather conditions has won Acting Coxswain James Dougal a Silver Medal for Gallantry. Weather and sea conditions during the service...
Grimsby Trawler Owners and the Life-Boat Service
FOR some time past it has been felt by the Institution that its Branch at Grimsby did not receive from the trawler owners the support which it bad reason to expect in view of the fact that Grimsby is the chief centre of the British Fishing...
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Valerie
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 7.29 p.m. on 2ist September, 1965, the coastguard reported that red flares had been seen in a position three miles southwest of Shoreham. The life-boat Dorothy and Philip Constant was launched at 7.38 in calm...