Strong offshore wind results in four calls in an hour Hayling Island's Atlantic 21 Aldershot had a very busy hour or so on 8 May when she was afloat on exercise and then dealt with several casualties in quick succssion.
Lt Cdr Donald McLauchlan MBE RN (RETD). Don joined the committee of Wimbledon branch as honorary treasurer in 1986. He was awarded the Institution's certificate of thanks in 1996..
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Second Coxswain from 1882-1886, and Coxswain from 1886-1926.. - View image in PDF
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The R.N.L.I's charter does not make provision for the preservation of old lifeboats and equipment, and the National Lifeboat Museum Bristol was therefore established as an independent registered charity for this...
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THE Queen's decision to name the new life-boat, The Royal British Legion Jubilee, at Henley-on- Thames on 17th July means that for the first time ever a reigning sovereign will have named one of the R.N.L.I.'s life-boats. Queen...
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DECEMBER 10TH. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. At 11.45 on the night of the 9th of December, the coastguard reported a vessel firing distress signals three miles north-east of Flamborough Head. A strong north-west wind was blowing, with a heavy...
Trawler taking water A FRENCH TRAWLER, Enfant de Bretagne, broadcast a Mayday call on the afternoon of Tuesday, December 2, 1975, saying that she was taking water in heavy weather in position 320°M 18 miles from St Ives Head. This...
Galway Bay. — At ten o'clock in the morning of the 12th of July, 1949, the local doctor asked for the help of the life-boat to take an urgent surgical case to Costello, Connemara, and the life-boat K.E.C.F. was launched at eleven...
ON THE MANACLE ROCKS Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 3.30 in the afternoon of the 10th of March, 1947, a message came that the motor vessel Antilope, of Groningen, had struck the Manacle Rocks. A fresh southerly breeze was blowing, the sea was rough,...
NOVEMBER 16-20TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At about 2.45 P.M. the coxswain received a message from the Warden Point coastguard that a ship was sinking close to the Mouse Light-vessel. A strong easterly gale was blowing, with a rough sea...