Padstow, Cornwall.—At 8.20 on the evening of the 19th of October, 1956, the Trevose Head coastguard tele- phoned that shouts for help had been heard off Trebetherick Point. At 8.55 the no. 2 life-boat Bassett Green was launched. There was a...
Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 1.25 on the afternoon of the 23rd of August, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a small boy was drifting out to sea in a rubber dinghy off South Beach. Ten minutes later the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was...
IN the Spring number there was a photograph of the Llandudno life-boat, off Conway Castle. This photograph was reproduced by very kind per- mission of the North Wales Weekly News, and we regret that no acknow- ledgment was made under the...
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Mallaig, Inverness-shire.—On the morning of the 17th of March, 1949, a westerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and at five o'clock a doctor on the Island of Eigg rang up Mallaig to ask if the life-boat could come to the...
Holy Island, Northumberland.—At 2.5 on the afternoon of the 27th of August, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the nine-ton auxiliary yacht Mermaid, of Poole, was drifting towards the Ridge, west of Holy Island Harbour, and at 2.16 the...
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 1.55 on the afternoon of the 7th of July, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that a small yacht anchored half a mile south-east of the pier needed help, and at 2.5 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched. The...
BROOCH bars for winners of the medals awarded by the Institution have recently been introduced and are now issued to all medallists. The bars are covered with the Institution's medal ribbon, which is light blue in colour, and are 1| in....
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Eastbourne, Sussex. At 3.50 on the afternoon of the llth of July, 1959, the coxswain received a message from the president of the Eastbourne sailing club that a dinghy had capsized two hundred yards off the promenade. The club members were...
Scarborough, Yorkshire. On the morning of the 13th of November,1959, the weather grew rapidly worse, and at 8.15 the life-boat J. G. Graves of Sheffield was launched as there were several local fishing cobles at sea.
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Gourdon, Kincardineshire. On the morning of the 26th of November, 1959, there was a very heavy swell at the entrance to the harbour, and the local fishing fleet were having difficulty in entering. Danger signals were hoist- ed, and...