GUIDED TO BOAT BY PARAFFIN FLARES Hastings, Sussex. At 8.35 on the evening of the 6th October, 1962, two members of the local angling club reported that the motor boat Mahaba was overdue. There was a light northeast breeze with a smooth sea....
Crossed Bar RETURNING at 1910 on June 6, 1987 from a machinery exercise, in command of the Portrush 52ft Arun class lifeboat Robert Evans (Civil Service No. 39), Second Coxswain/Mechanic Derek Chambers succeeded in crossing the bar at the...
The crew arrive on the scene and find two injured workmen.
One is unconscious with a head wound and the other has a bad eye wound. Who should they treat first? They crew fit a neck brace on the man with a head wound. The... - View image in PDF
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APRIL 15TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. During the evening a young man, a visitor to Brixham, fell from the cliffs between Landscove Camp and Berry Head and was severely injured. His cries for help were heard by another young man, walking along the...
The Branch has received a donation of £10 10s. Od.
from Dr. J. Gerard-Pearse, owner of the yacht Hope, and the three men who were on board with him when the yacht was rescued by the Weymouth Motor Life-boat on the 8th...
On the 26th February the No. 1 Lifeboat Augusta was again launched at 12.30 P.M., the fishing fleet having again been overtaken by a storm, the wind blowing strongly from the E. and the sea being very heavy. . Most of the boats had returned...
Lowestoft, Suffolk.-—At about 9.15 A.M.
on the 18th February, 1938, the coastguard reported a smack aground on the Inner Newcombe Sands, and the motor life-boat Agnes Cross was away within five minutes. A moderate N.E. by E...
The Haul-off Warp is used at nineteen stations, where the life-boats are launched off the open beach. It is a very effective method of getting the life-boat through the inshore breakers which might otherwise knock her back on the... - View image in PDF
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Stromness, Orkneys.—At 1.15 early on the morning of the 4th of May, 1957,the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned to say a message had been received that a vessel was ashore in Hoy Sound.
The life-boat Archibald & Alexander M...
IN the Coronation Honours Colonel A. D. Burnett Brown, M.C., T.D., M.A.
secretary of the Institution, was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, and Captain Q. Craufurd, R.X., honorary secretary of the...
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