Montrose, Angus. At 3.9 on the afternoon of the 10th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor launch had broken down three quarters of a mile off Usan. At 3.25 the life-boat The Good Hope was launched...
THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a life-boat crew in 1961 has been won by Coxswain John Stonehouse of Teesmouth for the rescue of the crew of three of the yacht Sybil Kathleen on the 1st...
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IN the Queen's first Birthday Honours Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., the chairman of the Committee of Management, was appointed a Knight of the Order of the British Empire, in recognition of his public services as "Chairman of the Isle...
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ON the afternoon of the 22nd of September, a south-westerly gale was blowing in the mouth of the Mersey with rain squalls and breaking seas twenty feet high. In those heavy seas the military authorities were afraid for the safety of -one of...
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Humber, Yorkshire. At 3.6 on the afternoon of the 8th of March, 1959, the coastguard at Spurn Point informed the honorary secretary that two of the crew of the Admiralty vessel D.G.V.400 needed medical attention. At 3.50 the life-boat City...
OCT. 4TH. - BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 9.45 A.M. the Craster coastguard reported that the motor fishing coble Onward was disabled a mile off the harbour. A strong E.S.E. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea.
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Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 6.50 on the evening of the 10th of May, 1957, the Bailey lighthouse-keeper telephoned that a boat was drifting ashore under the cliffs near the lighthouse. At seven o'clock the life-boat John...