NOW Available FOR THOSE IN PERIL The Life and Times of Sir William Hillary, Founder of the R.N.L.I.
Robert Kelly Illustrated by Norman Sayle £4.75 For Those in Peril tells of the early days of the Royal National...
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Arbroath, Angus.—On the night of the 23rd-24th April the weather became bad, and soon after midnight a strong S.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea and rain. Six local fishing boats were at sea. One of them, the Maggie Smith, was seen...
AT 3.10 early on the morning of the 15th of December, 1953, the harbour radio station reported that the motor vessel Brockley Combe, of Bristol, had wirelessed that she had struck the Minquiers Reef and needed help immediately. The Brockley...
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Plymouth, Torbay, and Salcombe, Devon.
—On the evening of the 9th January, with a strong south-westerly gale blowing, and a very heavy sea, information was received through the coastguard that signals of distress had been...
COMBINED OPERATION TO RESCUE BOY FROM CLIFF Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 9.40 on the evening of the 29th May, 1962, the police informed the honorary secretary that a boy was thought to have fallen into the sea from the Little Orme's...
On Sunday, the 16th October, the steam-ship Ontario, of Liverpool, struck on the Hasborough Sand, on the Norfolk eoa,st, during a strong breeze from the W.N.W. The Caister life-boat went off to her assistance ; but her services were declined...
CAISTER.—On the morning of the 23rd February, 1896, the Cockle Light-vessel fired guns and rockets. The Life-boat Covent Garden was taken out of her house, and while she was being launched a coast- guardman arrived and informed the cox-...
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Minehead, Somerset. At 6.5 on the evening of the 20th of March, 1958, the police told the honorary secretary that a young man had fallen on to the rocky shore about three miles west of Mine- head and was seriously injured. A rescue from...
MAN TAKEN ON BOARD AND DINGHY TOWED IN Hastings, Sussex. At 3.58 on the afternoon of the 22nd March, 1963, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic, in the absence of the honorary secretary, that the Bexhill police had reported a dinghy...
FISHING VESSEL ESCORTED TO SAFETY Plymouth, Devon. At 10.30 a.m. on Sunday the 7th of July, 1963, the Queen's Harbour Master informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the police reporting that the fishing...