Hastings, Sussex. At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 19th of December, 1959, the honorary secretary learnt that the fishing vessel Valiant had engine trouble and was having difficulty in making the beach at Hastings. At 1.6 the life-boat M.T.C...
Eastbourne, Sussex. At 7.10 on the evening of the 13th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the assistant honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized about three-quarters of a mile from the boathouse. The life-boat Beryl Tollemache was...
Selsey, Sussex. At 12.15 on the after- noon of the 21st of July, 1960, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that they were keeping the yacht Lucy, which appeared to have engine trouble, under observation. A fishing vessel was...
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 8.30 on the morning of the 26th of February, 1961, the honorary secretary was asked by the local medical officer if the life-boat would take the county surgeon and his assistants from Cahirciveen to Valentia Island as...
IRB LIFTED CLEAN FROM WATER Two members of the Southend-on-Sea IRB crew, Mr. Colin Sedgwick and Mr.
Robert Chalk, have both received letters of thanks signed by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E...
Category: Services
Barmouth, Merionethshire.—At 2.45 on the afternoon of the 3rd of August, 1957, the police reported that a rubber dinghy was being blown out to sea one mile off shore. At three o'clock the life-boat The Chieftain was launched in a...
SICK MAN FROM LIGHTHOUSE LANDED Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 15th June, 1963, the Commissioners of Irish Lights telephoned the honorary secretary to say that a keeper on Skelligs Rock fighthouse was very ill and to...
SICK MEMBER OF LIGHTVESSEL'S CREW SAVED Penlee, Cornwall. At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 25th June, 1963, the coastguard asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat could take a sick man from the Seven Stones lightvessel.
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FISHING VESSEL'S ENGINE BREAKS DOWN New Brighton, Cheshire. At half past twelve on the morning of Monday the 5th of August, 1963, the coxswain repor- ted that the fishing vessel Phoenician had broken down with engine trouble and had...
TOUCHED BOTTOM At 2.29 a.m. on 8th September, 1964, the police reported a red flare over Scroby sands. The sea was choppy with a fresh westerly breeze. The tide was two hours before low water when the life-boat Louise Stephens was launched...