Plymouth, South Devon. At 1.5 a.m. on 3ist May, 1965, the coastguard informed the life-boat's motor mechanic that a small motor boat about two miles off the Mewstone appeared to be making no progress. There was a fresh northerly breeze...
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex - At i .50 p.m.
on 25th October, 1966, a rowing boat, with two young men aboard, was reported overdue from a fishing trip. The IRB was launched shortly afterwards. It was five hours after high water....
THE new 37-foot Oakley life-boat to be stationed at Clacton-on-Sea is to be named Valentine Wyndham-Quin after Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham- Quin, R.N., Chairman of the R.N.L.I..
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RSPCA award ON WEDNESDAY AugUSt 12, 1981, Hlinstanton's D class inflatable lifeboat was called to a speedboat which, unoccupied except for a dog, was spinning round and round out of control off South Beach. The man who had been driving...
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LIST OF OFFICERS.
PRESIDENT- Capt. H.E.H. The DUKE OF YORK, R.N., K.G.
PRESIDENT OF THE LADIES' AUXILIARIES—H.R.H. The DUCHESS or YORK.
CENTRAL COMMITTEE- Sir EDWARD...
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LIFE-BOAT SIGNALS.
SIGNIFICATION.
NIGHT.
DAY.
1.—DANGER SEEN.
(To be answered from adjoining Stations as soon as observed.') Two Red-Star...
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JULY 19TH. - ARRANMORE, CO.DONEGAL. At about noon a man reported a ship’s boat drifting off the island. The weather was moderate with a S.W. wind.
At 8 P.M. the motor life-boat K.T.J.S. was launched, and found the boat...