SMOKE SIGNALS SAVE YACHT Salcombe, South Devon. At 6.5 p.m.
on Saturday the 17th of August, 1963, the Prawle Point coastguard reported to the honorary secretary that smoke signals had been seen south of Bolt Head. At 6.10...
ADRIFT AND LEAKING Holyhead, Anglesey. At 11.33 a-mon 2nd February, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two small boys were adrift in a pram dinghy which was leaking and oar-less in the outer harbour. There was a moderate...
LOBSTER BOAT SOUGHT Anxiety was felt about the local lobster fishing boat Mayflower which had put out at ii a.m. on i6th March, 1964, and had not returned five hours later. Weather conditions were rapidly deteriorating and there was a full...
SEAMAN LANDED Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. At 11.55 a.m. on 23rd May, 1964, the coastguard told the chairman of the branch committee that the motor vessel Firth Fisher was heading for Portpatrick with an injured seaman aboard. A doctor, who...
MASTER SERIOUSLY ILL Eyemouth, Berwickshire. At 10.50 a.m. on igth March, 1965, the honorary secretary was informed that the master of the motor fishing vessel Sea Scout was seriously ill and the Sea Scout was lying just outside Eyemouth bay...
Donaghadee, Co. Down - At 8.44 p.m. on 30th May, 1970, the coastguard told the motor mechanic that a motor boat appeared to be in difficulties south of Mew island. The life-boat Sir Samuel Kelly slipped her moorings at 9.6 in a fresh...
Many efforts were directed towards a particular goal. . . Sir Alec Rose pays in a 'cheque' for Hampshire Rose appeal at Lloyds Bank, helped by the manager, W. G.
Todd, treasurer Peters fie Id lifeboat... - View image in PDF
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MATERNITY CASE Galway Bay. At 10 a.m. on loth June, £965, the doctor at Kilronan told the lifeboat authorities that he had a maternity patient who needed immediate hospital treatment and, as there was no other suitable boat available,...
YACHT'S CREW SEASICK At 4.3 p.m. on 9th October, 1965, the yacht Selene was reported in difficulties.
The life-boat Kathleen Mary launched at 4.15 in a strong east-north-easterly breeze and a moderate sea, two hours...
MOTOR BROKE DOWN At 4 p.m. on 2yth October, 1965, the coxswain reported that three men in a small boat were in difficulties with their outboard motor broken down, near the Brazil buoy in the river Mersey. The life-boat Norman B. Corlett went...