At the blast of Royal National Life-boat Institution whistles, teams of women and schoolgirls drawn from around Bournemouth and Poole began furiously knitting blanket squares at sponsored knitins held simultaneously at Beales of Poole and... - View image in PDF
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A 15 year old youth ran up to a group of fishermen by the harbour at Dunbar, East Lothian, and told them that his brother had been washed off the rocks at the harbour entrance.
Coxswain Robert Brunton, who was present with...
The Queen, accompanied by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I-, Commander F. R. H. Swarm, O.B.E., R.N.V.R. (right), and Mr. C. G. Rickett, president of the Leander Club, Henley, disembarking from The Royal British Legion Jubilee at Henley on 17th... - View image in PDF
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Life-boat 70-001 at the Mumbles, Glamorganshire - At 12.10 p.m. on 5th November, 1967, a member of the life-boat crew saw a small dinghy close by which appeared to be dragging her anchor. Five minutes later the occupant raised anchor and the...
Walmer, Kent - At 1.20 p.m. on llth February, 1969, news was received that the motor boat Fairway of Deal, with four anglers on board, had broken down threequarters of a mile south east of the life-boat house.
At 1.32 the...
Life-boat 70-002 at Scapa pier, Orkney -At 11.30 a.m. on 18th April, 1969, a man was seen by a member of the life-boat crew to fall from the end of Scapa pier into the sea. The IRB carried aboard the life-boat was launched at 11.31. The tide...
Life-boat 44-001 at Sheerness, Kent - At 2.41 p.m. on 17th August, 1969, the coastguard told the staff coxswain that the catamaran Dandelion had capsized between Nos. 8 and 9 jetties of the Kent oil refinery on the Isle of Grain. The...
Swanage, Dorset - At 9.57 p.m. on 23rd August, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Yewforest had reported that she was standing by the yacht Ruan which was in difficulties 14 miles south west of Anvil point...
At 6.10 p.m. on 2gth October, 1966, red flares were reported two miles north east of Tankerton. There was a moderate wind from the north east with a slight seaand rain squalls. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. n) launched at 6...
Donaghadee, Co. Down - At 2.48 p.m. on 8th April, 1967, information was received that a member of the crew of the commercial radio vessel Comet was seriously injured and required medicalassistance. The life-boat John R. Webb, on temporary...