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The Dutch 45' Steel Motor Barge Minnie Ha Ha
CLACTON COASTGUARD intercepted a message from Warden Point Coastguard to Margate Coastguard at 1556 on July 15, 1974, advising that red flares had been sighted by MV Moreton Bay between No. 9 and No. 10 Buoys in Black Deep Channel. Mansion...
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BOLD DIVE Mr. Albert Court, the full-time mechanic of the Wells, Norfolk, life-boat, was peacefully ferrying visitors in his own boat across the harbour channel on 4th July, 1971, from the Cockle Strand. There was an cast north easterly wind...
Is This An Answer? the Story of the Lifeboat Memorial Book By the Lord Saltoun, MC
A SOCIETY can be very highly organised without being at all civilised. To send a rocket to a distant planet is a wonderful demonstration of a society's technical and scientific capacity, but tells one nothing about its degree of...
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A Helicopter (1)
Tynemouth, and Cullercoats, Northum- berland. At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 5th August, 1961, the life-boat Tynesider stationed at Tynemouth was launched on a routine combined exer- cise with a helicopter from No. 228 Squadron, R.A.F....
Pride
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston. — At 7.56 on the morning of the 17th of June, 1948, the Gorleston coastguard tele- phoned that three men in a shrimp boat, two miles to the south-south-west, were showing a flag on a pole and appar- ently...
Margaret
Newcastle, Co. Down.—At 9.50 on the night of the 15th of September, 1949, the coastguard reported that a motor fishing boat was in distress off Bloody Bridge and her crew shouting for help. The life-boat William and Laura was launched at...
Moon Raker
Torbay, Devon.—At 8.59 on the even- ing of the 26th of October, 1954, the Brixham coastguard telephoned that two red flares had been seen between three and four miles off Coombe Point.
At 9.25 the life-boat George Shee put...
Albatross
Walmer, Kent.—At 5.10 on the morning of the 26th of August, 1951, the Deal Coastguard telephoned he had seen two red flares four miles south-by- east of the coastguard station. At 5.30 the life-boat Charles Dibdin, Civil Service No. 2, was...
Merlyn
Boulmer, Northumberland.—At 4.21 on the afternoon of the 23rd of August, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that a motor boat was in difficulties two miles to the eastward and was flying a black flag. At 4.35 the life-boat Clarissa Langdon...
A Dinghy (6)
Douglas, Isle of Man.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 25th of August, 1957, the coastguard reported that a rubber- covered dinghy had been observed by a pilot of a Rritish European Air- ways aircraft some five miles east of Ronaldsway. The...