Lerwick, Shetlands. At 1.19 early on the morning of the 9th of Novem- ber, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Theway was ashore on the north end of Mousa. As the life-boat crew were assembling a further...
ESCORT AFTER CARGO VESSEL IS REFLOATED Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 1.8 early on the morning of the 22nd January, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cargo vessel had gone aground on Newcombe sands. The coastguard made...
LAUNCHERS' ORDEAL Hastings, Sussex. — At 5.32 in the evening of February 20th, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that the Bexhill police had reported flares about five miles south of Bexhill. An easterly breeze was blowing with a...
COBLE ESCORTED TO SAFETY OF BAY Flamborough, Yorkshire. On the 12th September, 1962, the local fishing coble Provider was out fishing from the north landing when a northerly gale sprang up. The life-boat coxswain went to the landing, and as...
Amble, Northumberland - At 1.14 a.m. on i5th July, 1967, it was learnt that a sick man aboard the motor vessel Ashdene of Sunderland required urgent medical assistance. The life-boat Millie Walton, with a doctor on board, slipped her...
TOO ROUGH At 8.30 a.m. on 9th of April, 1966, the Lloyd's agent told the honorary secretary that the trawler Ross Cormorant would be in Bridlington Bay at 8.30 p.m. and wished to have a sick man taken off. He had asked for a coble to go,...
THE Duke of Richmond and Gordon opened the new life-boat house at the recently completed station at Selsey, Sussex, at a ceremony on the 18th of July, 1960. Earl Howe, Chairman of the Committee Management of the Institution, gave an address,...
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Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 11.50 on the morning of the 15th of August, 1960, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from the Galloper lightvessel that the yacht Julia, bound from Rotterdam to Harwich, was alongside...
• CI should like to tell about something that has given me an enormous amount of satisfaction; I think it was one of the proudest moments in my life when they made me the coxswain —and certainly the proudest moment in my dad's life. One...
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SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.—On the 8th April, during a N. wind, squally weather and a very rough sea, signals of distress were shown by the sloop Watson, of Goole,was at about 5.15 P.M. The Life-boat Ann, John and Mary was at once got ready for...