Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 21st of September, 1953, the coastguard reported that the S.S.
Guildford, of London, which was off Southwold, was making for Gorleston to land a man who...
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 6.15 onthe evening of the 29th of March, 1954, the Orlock Head coastguard rang up to say that a keeper in the Maidens lighthouse was ill. He asked if the life-boat would take a relief man to it and land the patient...
Selsey, Sussex.—At 3.55 in the after- noon, on the 8th of September, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was burning red flares one and a half miles south-south-east of Selsey Bill.
The sea was choppy, with a light...
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 12.30 in the afternoon of the 10th of August, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a motor boat was in distress and in danger of •drifting ashore three-quarters of a mile west-south-west of Seaford and a half- mile off...
Dungeness, Kent.—At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 23rd of June, 1956, a shipping agent telephoned to say that the fishing boat Invictor, of Folkestone, was disabled with a broken shaft three- quarters of a mile south-east of the life-boat...
Fowey, Cornwall.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 1st of October, 1956, the Polruan coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht was ashore at Black Head west of Charlestown. At 2.20 the life-boat Deneys Reitz put...
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 16th of December, 1957, a local resident heard on his radio that the fishing vessel Gien Mie, of Fleet- wood, needed help. He told the honorary secretary, and at 1.40 the life-boat Ann...
In October Raymond Hirst, secretary of Morecarnbe and Heysham branch, completed the Fastnet Challenge aboard Team Spirit, one of Sir Chay Blyth's 67' classic challenge round-the-world ocean racing yachts.
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2 October: Hartlepool When a scrap metal lorry rolled forward and was left precariously hanging metres above the waters of Irvine's Quay, Hartlepool Harbour Police asked the RNLI to stand by during the rescue...
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St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 10.48 on the morning of the llth August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor boat had put out earlier in the evening with the owner and his son on board to go fishing and...