Enjoyable sail turns into near disaster Windsurfer Christopher Long was out enjoying a brisk sail last September when gear failure disabled his board and he spent three hours in the water. When Eastbourne's inshore lifeboat picked him up...
GRIMSBY.—On the 7th January, notice having been received that the services of the Life-boat were required, the steam Life-boat James Stevens No. 3 left the harbour at 3.40 A.M., and proceeded to the schooner Demarius, of Goole, bound from...
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Barmouth, Merionethshire. At 12.22 p.m. on I3th August, 1965, two red flares were fired from a motor boat about one mile north of Llwyngwril. The lifeboat The Chieftain was launched at 12.30 in a fresh to strong easterly wind and a choppy...
ISLAND CALL At 2.15 p.m. on 3rd November, 1963, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that a sick patient on Inishmaan Island needed hospital treatment. There was a fresh easterly breeze with a moderate sea. The tide was ebbing....
WOMAN PASSENGER ILL Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At 4 p.m. on 3rd March, 1965, the harbour master informed the honorary secretary that a passenger on board the motor vessel Monte Aracus of Bilbao was sick and needed medical attention. At 4.35...
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Aith, Shetlands. At 5.40 p.m. on nth November, 1965, a man told the honorary secretary that he had seen a green flare just west of the Island of Vementry. It was one hour to high water when the life-boat John and Francis MacFarlam put out at...
Falmouth, Coverack, Fowey, Cornwall and Salcombe Devon - At 5.37 a.m. on ist August, 1966, the Coastguard requested the Falmouth coxswain to launch the life-boat to search for the motor cruiser Darlwin which had been reported overdue. The...