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Frank M

Date: December 1935

Volume: 29

Issue: 324

The motor life-boat Prudential put out at 7.22 A.M. on the 17th September, as the coastguard had reported that a vessel was drift- ing towards the harbour. A whole S.W. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The life-boat found the vessel...

Thais

Date: December 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 340

Swanage, Dorset, and Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 6.10 P.M. on the 6thAugust, 1939, the coastguard informed the life-boat station at Swanage that a sailing yacht had capsized off Christchurch Ledge Buoy, and the motor lifeboat Thomas Markby...

The S.S. Persic

Date: December 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 390

Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 9.30 on the evening of the 18th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the wireless operator on board the s.s. Persic of Southampton had had a heart attack and needed a doctor. After...

Adieu

Date: March 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 403

BARGE FOUND AWASH AND TAKEN IN TOW Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 9.24 on the evening of the 16th October, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the barge Adieu, with a man and a woman on board, was aground north of the south-east...

Vulfrano

Date: March 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 415

CABIN CRUISER AGROUND Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 6.40 p.m. on 8th September, 1965, a cabin cruiser was seen by the coastguard to be in difficulties off Warden Point. There was a full gale from the south-west with a rough sea. The life-boat...

A Boat

Date: September 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 413

BOAT DRIFTING Amble, Northumberland. At 8.40 p.m. on 8th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat with two men on board was drifting out to sea. The life-boat Millie Walton put to sea at nine o'clock...

Best Wreck Service

Date: September 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 421

The Rt. Hon. Douglas Jay, M.P., President of the Board of Trade, has awarded the shield for the best wreck service of the year 1966/67 to the Belhelvie and Collieston Coastguard Rescue Companies for their rescue of six men by breeches buoy...

Category: Awards

None

Date: Autumn 1988

Volume: 51

Issue: 506

Divers in difficulties Cromer'sTyne was also involved in this service on 29 August, with the station's D class inflatable, when three divers were rescued after getting into difficulties.

Two men and a woman from a...

Morn,

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

JUNE 1 0TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At about noon 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...

Thais

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

AUG. 6TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET, AND YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 6.10 P.M.. the coastguard informed the life-boat station at Swanage that a sailing yacht had capsized off Christchurch Ledge Buoy, and the motor life-boat Thomas Markby was...