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Lifeboat Services
The Lifeboat Mersey class ON 1169 Marine Engineer The Crew • Bronze Atedgf Co» swain Fr«d WalMngton for his 'courage, seamanship skills.
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Category: Services
La Boussole
Sinking yacht JERSEY RADIO received a MAYDAY relay call at 2215 on the night of Sunday August 5, 1984. The 25ft French sloop, La Boussole, had hit a rock north of Alderney and was sinking. Alderney lifeboat station was notified and at 2233...
Straight Flush
Margate, Kent. At 11.25 on the morning of the 15th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was ashore near the South Margate buoy and needed help. At 11.38 the life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No....
Kongo and Two Motor Fishing Vessels
YACHT AND TWO FISHING VESSELS ESCORTED TO HARBOUR Bridlington, Yorkshire. At seven o'clock on the evening of the 3rd August 1962, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small sailing yacht had been seen passing Spurn Point and...
Ruby
At about 7.30 A.M., on the 7th October, the Life-boat Coxswain, who was on the look-out, observed a yacht near the Middle Patch buoy, about four miles distant, showing signals of distress. He immediately summoned his crew, and the Life- boat...
A Rescue at Gibraltar
WHILE H.M.S. Wishart was at Gibraltar last June one of her boats' crews picked up the crew of a yacht which had capsized. The rescued men gave their rescuers ten shillings, and they sent it to the Institution..
Category: Donations
Fisher
Walmer, Kent.—At 9.42 on the night of the 24th of June, 1954, a message was received that a yacht had broken down near the South Goodwin light- vessel. At 9.45 the life-boat Charles Dibdin, Civil Service No. 2 waslaunched. The sea was...
Bagatelle
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—About 8.45 on the evening of the 6th of August, 1955, a fisherman came in from sea in his fishing boat and brought ashore a woman from the yacht Bagatelle, of Ipswich. She stated that the yacht had run ashore on...
Benari
Margate, Kent. At 1.44 on the after- noon of the 24th July, 1961, the coast- guard told the coxswain that a yacht had grounded on the Hook sands and that her crew of four were trying to refloat her. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil...
Corsair
ABANDONED ON SCROBY SANDS Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 6.27 in the morning of the 29th of July, 1947, the Great Yarmouth coast- guard reported that a sailing yacht appeared to be aground on the Scroby Sands...