FEBRUARY 15TH. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.
The naval authorities reported to the life-boat station that at nine o’clock the previous evening a small launch had left the naval pier. Anxiety was felt for the safety of the officer...
TO OUTLINE ALL the work of the Medical and Survival Committee would take too long, so the following paragraphs will contain accounts of activities selected because they are likely to be of general interest and, where necessary, explanations...
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Ramsgate, Kent.—At about 5.35 P.M.
on the 3rd October, 1938, a message was received from the East Pier that two picket boats from H.M.S. Franklin, which was lying in Margate Roads, had left harbour to return to her, but had...
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex - At 5.50 a.m. on I4th August, 1966, a yacht was aground on East Barrow sands. She was not showing any distress signals but in view of the weather conditions the lifeboat Edward and Isabella Irwin, on temporary duty at...
St. Peter Port, Guernsey - At 8 p.m.
on 29th August, 1966, local residents saw a yacht in difficulties in Pembroke bay.
At 8.20 the life-boat Lloyd's, on temporary duty at the station, proceeded in a...
Galway Bay. At 3.50 p.m. on ist December, 1965, the local doctor notified the honorary secretary that a five-year-old boy who had a broken leg needed transport to hospital on the mainland. No other boat was available for this purpose, so the...
MEDICAL CALL At 7.50 p.m. on 8th March, 1966, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would convey a patient to South Uist for hospital treatment as no other boat was available. The life-boat The Rankin, on temporary...
YACHT FOUND DRAGGING ANCHOR IN GALE Dover, Kent. At 9.30 on the evening of the 26th August, 1962, a message was received that the yacht Marabu of the Royal Naval Sailing Association, which was sheltering in Dover harbour, was dragging her...
Hospital run THE LOCAL DOCTOR asked Barra Island lifeboat to convey an urgent maternity case from Tangasdale to Lochboisdale, South Uist. It was 0425 on Monday, March 8. With good visibility, a fresh east-south-easterly breeze and a choppy...
FEBRUARY 2 7TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 3.45 in the afternoon information was received that the principal keeper at the Tuskar Rock Lighthouse had asked by wireless for the life-boat to bring ashore a sick keeper. The motor...