Skegness, Lincolnshire. At 5.30 on the evening of the 27th of September, 1958, the motor mechanic told the coxswain that the cabin cruiser Olivier needed help off Skegness. At 5.50 the life-boat The Cuttle was launched in a heavy ground...
Ramsgate, Kent. At 4.33 on the after- noon of the 21st of September, 1959, the watchman on the east pier told the honorary secretary that a girl was adrift in a canoe in Pegwell Bay some distance from the shore. Eight minutes later the...
Ramsey, Isle of Man. At 6.15 on the evening of the 5th May, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen over the cliff at Maughold Head and later asked for the life-boat. At 6.35 the life-boat Frank and...
Galway Bay. At two o'clock on the night of the 9th September, 1961, the local medical officer asked for the use of the life-boat to bring a sick child from Inishmaan to the mainland at Rossaveel. As no other suitable boat was available,...
The late Professor Edgar A. Pask, O.B.E., M.D., M.A., M.B., B.Chir., D.A., F.F.A.R.C.S., who was a member of the Committee of Management of the Institution, was honoured at an informal ceremony in November in the presence of the Duke and...
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Seven German prisoners of war, who had been wotking on tine beach at Wells, Norfolk, removing coast defences, and had seen the life-boat launched on exercise, stole a lorry from a car park and drove to the life-boat house on the night of...
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PORTHOUSTOCK, CORNWALL.—At about 6 A.M., on the 23rd March, the Coxswain of the Life-boat Charlotte, waa informed that a vessel was firing signals of distress, having stranded on the Manacles rocks. A light wind wag then blowing from N.E.,...
CROMER AND PALLING, NORFOLK.—At about 4.30 P.M. on the llth February the Cromer Life-boat, Louisa Hearticell, and the Palling No. 2 Life-boat, Hearts of Oak, went off to the Haisbro' Sands in response to a message from the light vessel...
At 12.45 P.M.
a message was received from the Chief Officer of the Coastguard stating that o fishing-boats were unable to enter the harbour. As there was a very rough sea, and a strong southerly gale was blowing, it was...
At 1 A.M.
on the Hth January, Coxswain John Crocombe, received a message from the Coast-guard Station stating that inform- ation had been received by telephone to the effect that a vessel was firing signals of distress in...