INJURED CHINESE SEAMEN TAKEN OFF SHIP Penlee, Cornwall. On the 1st September, 1962, news was received that the motor vessel Ben Hope was approaching Penzance with two injured men on board. They had been severely burnt in an accident in the...
WAS SERIOUSLY ILL At 8.15 p.m. on gist October, 1964, the local doctor told the honorary secretary that a woman who was seriously ill on Inishmaan needed immediate medical attention. It was low water with a moderate sea and a fresh easterly...
Jersey centenary While visiting Jersey on Friday June 1, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, a Patron of the RNLI, attended a service of thanksgiving and blessing for St Helier lifeboat station and presented a vellum to mark the...
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Amphibious rescue Eastbourne - South East Division The Director of the RNLI has sent a letter of appreciation to two Eastbourne brothers after an unusual shore-boat service in which their amphibious vehicle helped a fishing boat, while...
THE unfortunate accident which occurred to the Calais mail-packet Prince Frederick William, in February last, will be fresh in the memory of many of our readers, when the upsetting of one of the Calais life-boats, which had proceeded to the...
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THURSO, — Flare lights were burnt by the schooner Bonnie Lass, of Wick, bound for Castle Hill, in ballast, which was riding in Scrabster Eoadstead, during a violent gate from the N.W., and a terrible sea on the 2nd February. The Life-boat...
MISSING BUOY TAKEN IN TOW Weymouth, Dorset. At 2.10 on the morning of the 29th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flashing light had been seen south-east-by-south of Portland Bill moving west. There...
1948 £ *. d.
148,673 4 1 360 4 2 .47,180 13 3 143 7 11 32,729 2 1 14,801 14 7 1,039 17 11 2,010 4 6 246,938 8 6 20,782 15 - 41 - - 2,165 17 6 2,652 4 6 1,816 6 5 181 2 6 27,639 5 11 27,042 18 8 23,516 4 7 198 18 10...
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Operational changes in North East EnglandEvery five years each stretch of the UK and Irish coastlines undergoes a Coast Review. Senior RNLI operational personnel and trustees visit the lifeboat stations and assess whether the right class,...
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Life-boats:- EXPENDITURE. £ New Life-boats for the following stations :—On account —Angle, Courtmacsherry, Clacton, Cromer, Cromarty, Dover, Eastbourne, Fowey, Holyhead, Humber, Padstow, Southend-on-Sea, Stornoway, Stromness, Swanage,...
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