WHFN HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH named Hartlepool's new 44' Waveney lifeboat on Thursday, July 14, it was an historic moment for both the RNLI and the Scout Association; for the RNLI it was the first time a reigning monarch had ever...
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APRIL 2ND. - PORT ASKAIG. HEBRIDES.
Shortly after mid-day a request was received from a county council official for the use of the Port Askaig life-boat, on Islay, to go to Colonsay and bring to Islay a mental patient, from...
The Hythe, Kent, life-boat did not return from Dunkirk. The Tynemouth life-boat was destroyed in her house by a bomb. Three new life-boats were destroyed by bombs in the building-yard at Cowes. The life-boats at St.
Helier,...
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JUNE 23RD. - ST. PETER PORT, GUERNSEY. At 1 P.M. the harbour master telephoned to the coxswain asking for the lifeboat to go to Alderney to take off six people, two of whom were injured and would have to travel on stretchers. This was a part...
— The schooner Harmony, of Preston, while bound from Garston to Wexford with a cargo of coal, ran ashore on the Black- water Bank, on the 24th April, and became a total wreck. Her signals of distress were observed by the Coast- guard, who...
Catamaran out of control A CATAMARAN, Floral Dancer of Falmouth with a crew of three aboard, out of control and needing help was reported to the honorary secretary of Sennen Cove lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1347 on Saturday February...
Arun at sea for nine hours in winds gusting to lOOmph The Arun class lifeboat City of Bradford, at Ballyglass during the new station's twelve-month evaluation period, carried out a long and arduous service on 11 February which earned the...
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 5.45 on the evening of the 19th of March, 1959, the police telephoned the signal station asking for help in rescuing a man stranded on the cliff face between Moulin Huet and Petit Bot on the south side of the...
Clogher Head, Co. Louth. At 10.40 on the night of the 21st August, 1961, thehonorary secretary was informed that a small boat with three boys on board had failed to return to the harbour. At 11.15 on the ebbing tide the life-boat George and...
EVEN those who know the Life-boat Service will find very much to interest them in How Men are Rescued from the Sea by Patrick Howarth (Routiedge and Kegan Paul, 10s. 6d.), as it des- cribes, briefly and swiftly, all the services which guide,...
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