Whitby, Yorkshire.—The fishing fleet put out early on the morning of the 6th May. Later on the weather got bad, a thick fog settled and the sea was rising fast. Some of the boats ran for harbour, and the motor life-boat Margaret Harker Smith...
Bridlington, Yorkshire. — At 9.45 in the morning of the 30th of October, 1948, a fishing vessel off the pier was seen to burn a flare, and at 10.15 the motor life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield, was launched. She found the local motor...
THE Institution is issuing to living holders of its gold, silver and bronze medals, miniature reproductions of their medals. These miniatures will be half the size of the originals. They will have on them the reverse of j the originals,...
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Buckie, Banffshire.—At 11.33 on the morning of the 12th of March, 1953, the coastguard passed on a message from the Buckie police that an air- craft was down in the sea off Buckpool harbour, about one and a half mileswest of Buckie. The life...
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 24th of March, 1954, the weather worsened, making the harbour entrance dangerous. Two local fishing cobles, the Hilda II and Betty, were at sea. The life-boatmen assembled, but the Hilda II...
LIFE-BOAT day in Greater London was held on 15th May. Among those who helped with the appeal were the Lady Mayoress, who collected at the Mansion House, the Mayoress of West- minster, who collected in Trafalgar Square, and the Mayors of...
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Walmer, Kent. At about 3.5 p.m.
on 6th June, 1965, life-boatmen at the boat house saw a sailing dinghy capsize some three-quarters of a mile southeast of the station. At 3.5 p.m. the inshore rescue boat launched in a...
INJURED MAN At 2.35 p.m. on 28th March, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Grimsby trawler Blackburn Rovers in Bridlington Bay had an injured man on board. There was a fresh north westerly breeze with a moderate...
Fowey, Cornwall. At eight o'clock on the evening of the 14th of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was firing red flares three miles south ofFowey. At 8.13 the life-boat Deneys Reit: put out at high...
Appledore, Devon. — At 9.20 on the evening of the 19th of September, 1954, a doctor told the coxswain that a woman and her daughter were in diffi- culties in the local motor boat Mahala of Crow Rocks and were burning...