Plymouth, Devon - At 6.43 p.m. on 10th June, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two children were stranded on rocks between Picklecombe and Cremyll.
At 7.3 the life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse...
Margate, Kent. At 5.35 on the afternoon of the 8th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was ashore on the Last Sands four and a half miles west-north-west of the coastguard look- out. When it was...
FISHING VESSEL ENTERS HARBOUR IN TOW Anstruther, Fife. At 10.5 on the morning of the 17th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two fishing vessels, one in tow of the other, were approaching the harbour. There...
Lerwick, Shetlands - At 10.58 p.m.
on 8th May, 1967, it was reported that the motor fishing vessel Day Dawn of Lerwick had broken down off Bard Head, Bressay, and was in danger of being driven on to the rocks. The life-boat...
Ix 1949 eleven life-boats were com- pleted and sent to the coast. Another twenty more were under construction when the year ended.
Before the war a life-boat took, on an average, a year to build. After the war the time at...
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Scarborough, Yorkshire. At 4.5 on the afternoon of the 29th of January, 1960, the life-boat /. G. Graves oj Sheffield was launched to the help of the motor boat Sceptre, which was in difficulties in worsening weather con- ditions one mile...
EMERGENCY CALL At 9.15 p.m. on the same day the local doctor told the honorary secretary that a young man was suffering from severe head injuries after an accident. No other boat was available and as it was imperative to take the patient to...
TOW FOR CABIN CRUISER THROUGH HEAVY SEAS Troon, Ayrshire. At 11.45 on the morning of the 9th September, 1962, the pilot at Troon harbour told the coxswain that a cabin cruiser was drifting close to Gailes shore. At 11.55 the life-boat James...
Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 3.5 p.m. on 8th February, 1970, it was learnt that a man was clinging to a capsized canoe and drifting off shore in a northerly direction.
The life-boat Edian Courtauld slipped her moorings at...
Humber, Yorkshire - At 9.30 a.m.
on 19th October, 1966, news was received that a member of the crew of the Dowsing lightvessel required to be taken ashore for medical treatment. As there was no urgency it was decided to...