Lifeboatman injured AT 05 15 ON FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1988 Mr Llew Hardy the station honorary secretary of Swanage lifeboat was advised by Portland Coastguard that the MV Renee was in difficulties in heavy seas 10 miles south south west of...
LAST September five boys made a sand model on the Southwold beach of the Queen Elizabeth, collected seven shillings from those who stopped to look at it and gave them to the Southwold branch of the Institution..
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The following life-boat service should have been included in the September, 1967, issue of THE LIFEBOAT.
Arklow, Wicklow - At 12.15 p.m. on 3rd May, 1967, the harbour master informed the honorary secretary that the motor...
Selsey, Sussex. At 12.15 on the after- noon of the 21st of July, 1960, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that they were keeping the yacht Lucy, which appeared to have engine trouble, under observation. A fishing vessel was...
Speedboat sinks ON THE MORNING of Easter Sunday April 7, 1985, Brixham coastguard received a report from a member of the public that a speedboat had sunk on Pole Sands and that there were some people in the water. Fifteen minutes later, at...
Injured swimmer A SOUTH-WESTERLY NEAR GALE force 7 was blowing on the afternoon of Saturday August 2, 1986, when the honorary secretary of Tenby lifeboat station was told by Milford Haven coastguard that a swimmer off Monkstone Beach was...
Ballycotton, Co. Cork - At 9 a.m.
on 18th December, 1969, a radio distress signal was picked up by the life-boat mechanic that the motor fishing vessel Beal Abha was in difficulties nine miles south east of Ballycotton...
At 4.30 A.M. on the 21st February the Albert Edward Life-boat was launched, signals having been fired by the Swin Middle, Light-vessel. The morning was bitterly cold; a very strong wind was blowing from the N.E., and the sea was very rough....
Baltimore, Co. Cork. — 8th March, 1939. A trawler's engine had broken down, but she had put it right and went on her way without help.—Rewards, £21 Is..
Amble, Northumberland. — 15th October, 1939. A barrage balloon was reported to have fallen into the sea, but the life-boat could find no trace of it.—Rewards, £11 8s..