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NEWSPOINT One only has to look at the names of the RNLI's lifeboat's to realise that a large percentage of them, indeed perhaps the majority, have been funded by legacies and bear the name of the donor or a close...
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Aith, Shetlands.-—On the 9th of Jan- uary, 1956, the doctor at Walls asked if the life-boat would take him and a relieving nurse to Foula, because con- tinuous bad weather had isolated the island for nearly a month and at least two people...
Sadikzade and Carmen
TURKISH AND PANAMANIAN VESSELS IN COLLISION Dover, Kent. At 2.37 on the morning of the 13th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there had been a collision between the motor vessel Sadikzade of Turkey and the motor...
Three cheers for Tamars!
Three new Tamar class lifeboats went on service at RNLI stations this Autumn – at Kilmore Quay, Shoreham Harbour and Bembridge.
Kilmore Quay’s new lifeboat, Killarney, was the first Tamar to go on station in Ireland....
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Dorothy of Poole
Dungeness, Kent. At 8.20 on the evening of the 3rd July, 1961, thehonorary secretary received a message from the observation post at the range at Lydd that a small cabin cruiser was burning red flares a mile off Jury...
The S.S. Baron Yarborough
Workington, Cumberland. — On the 18th of August, 1954, the weather was too bad for the S.S. Baron Yarborough, of Ardrossan, which was at anchor off the harbour, to enter, and she wire- lessed for provisions. As no other boat was...
Excelsior
Bridlington, Yorkshire.— On the morning of the 9th of August, 1952, several small motor fishing vessels were at sea, and as the weather was quickly deteriorating the life-boat crew assembled. A strong south- easterly breeze was blowing,...
Fishing Cobles
Filey, Yorkshire. At 11.35 on the morning of the 28th of December, 1959, it was decided that the life-boat The Isa and Penryn Milsted should launch to escort several local fishing cobles, which were returning to harbour in rapidly worsening...
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EMPTY ROWING BOAT TOWED TO HARBOUR Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 5.5 on the morning of the llth June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was drifting a mile and a half north-north-east of Orlock. The life-boat...
A Motor Boat
Exmouth, Devon-At 1.45 a.m. on 3rd June, 1968, the coastguard reported that a motor boat from Dawlish with two people on board was overdue from a fishing trip. The life-boat Michael Stephens slipped her moorings at 2.15. It was two hours...