Capsized dinghy TWO MEN visiting Tenby by yacht on Sunday September 28, 1980, were returning by dinghy from shore to their yacht in the late evening when their dinghy capsized. One man managed to cling to a rock but the other, who could not...
Launches 29. Lives rescued 9.
JUNE 3RD. - NEW BRIGHTON , CHESHIRE. At 9.30 A.M. the coxswain was informed that the fishing boat Speedwell, of New Brighton, had broken from her moorings and gone aground between the Perch...
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Margate, Kent.—At about noon on the 10th June, 1939, a yacht was seen by a life-boatman ashore on the Margate Sands. A light S.E. breeze was blowing, the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) was...
Overdue THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND motor fishing vessel Ard Carna put out from Greencastle, Lough Foyle, on Thursday April 28 to fish white fish. She had a crew of five and was expected back on the Friday or Saturday. At 2200 on Saturday April...
EDINBURGH, the capital of Scotland, is situated near the south shore of the Firth of Forth, nearly 400 miles from London. It is sur- rounded on all sides, excepting the north, by lofty hills, the town itself standing on three hills or ridges...
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The First Of The 21-Foot Atlantic Class Of Inshore Life-Boats To Take Up Operational Duties Is Now Stationed At Hartlepool She Is Normally Manned By A Crew Of Three. - View image in PDF
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PORTRUSH, Co. ANTRIM.—The crew of this Life-boat haying expressed a desire to be provided •with a larger boat, a new one has accordingly been furnished to them, of the following dimensions: length, 32 feet; breadth, 7£ feet; number of...
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On the 11th January, news was received at this station that the services of the China life-boat were urgently needed in Torbay, as many vessels were in great danger of being wrecked during a strong gale of wind from the N.E. The China...
For generations, people have been tombstoning off cliffs. On 22 July last year, five boys ignored warnings and jumped into treacherous waters
Towards the end of a long day’s work on Portreath Beach, Cornwall, Senior...
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Torbay, Devon.—At 8.45 on the even- ing of the 10th of February, 1953, local shipping agents telephoned that a man had fallen down the hold of the S.S. Henriette Schulte, of Emden, seriously injuring himself, and asked if the life-boat would...