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COXSWAIN WATCHES TILL YACHT IS EM TROUBLE Appledore, Devon. During the morning of the 21st July, 1962, the coxswain saw a small motor yacht with one man on board leave Appledore in a strong westerly breeze and an ebbing tide. He kept the...
Life-Boats In the Battle of Britain.
The defeat of Germany's air attack on this country in the autumn of 1940, known as the Battle of Britain, lasted, according to the official accounts, from August 8th. to October 31st. During these 85 days life-boats were launched to the...
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Maria
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 7.10 on the evening of the 3rd of January, 1957, the Wyke Regis coastguard tele- phoned to say a woman had reported that her husband had put out in the twenty-feet motor boat Maria early that morning and had not returned...
Rose
Fenit, Co. Kerry. At 1.10 on the after- noon of the 3rd of March, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that a small fishing boat was in danger of being driven on to the rocks in upper Tralee Bay. The wind was of gale force from the...
Elizabeth Victoria
Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At noon on the 3rd of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the cabin cruiser Elizabeth Victoria of Swansea was in difficulties half a mile south ofthe coastguard look-out. The life-boat William...
Gannet
Beaumaris, Anglesey - At 3.21 p.m.
on 3rd September, 1966, news was received that a yacht, whose engine had failed, was being driven on to the rocks at Puffin island. The life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was launched...
Out on a shout
What do you understand by the term ‘shout’ in lifeboating? Is it simply the launch or the entire rescue mission? Is it derived literally from the call to action and who used it first – volunteeers or the mass media? Searching the newly...
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Saved after sandbank shift
RNLI lifeguards patrolling Tenby South beach went to the aid of a group of 40 people when the sandbank they were walking on shifted on 25 July.
The 36 children and 4 adults were suddenly out of their depth. Two lifeguards...
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Galway Bay. At 10 p.m. on 3rd April, 1965, a nurse on Inishere Island informed the honorary secretary that a doctor was required for a maternity case.
As all the local boats were aground because it was low water it was...
An Aeroplane (1)
29th October. Distress flares reported but nothing could be found. It was prob- ably the aeroplane to which Dover also launched.—Rewards £40 7s. 9d.
(A full account of this launch appears on p. 8, of this...