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One Act Plays

Date: December 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 374

Two new one act plays on the subject of the Life-boat Service have recently been written. Both are available to branches for local performances, and in each case the author is willing to forgo any royalties when branches produce the play in...

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Bess

Date: October 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 351

Barrow, Lancashire. — On the morn- ing of the 31st of July, 1949, a strong west-south-west breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. At 5.13 the Walney coastguard reported that a trawler had spoken to a motor yacht west of More- cambe Bay...

Tryst

Date: Autumn 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 363

Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire.—At 10.30 on the morning of the 9th of August, 1952, the life-boat mechanic reported that a small sailing yacht appeared to be anchored a quarter of a mile to the east of the harbour entrance and was making signals...

Sea Fury

Date: September 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 373

Hoylake, Cheshire.—At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 8th of April.

1955. the life-boat coxswain reported that he had seen a yacht in Hilbre Swash and thought she would be in a dangerous position if the weather...

Julia

Date: September 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 377

Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 16th of June, 1956, a message was received from Valentia radio that the Dutch motor vessel Stientje Mensinga had picked up the small yacht Julia ten miles north-east...

Pococita

Date: December 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 382

Cromer, Norfolk.—At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 22nd of July, 1957, the coxswain of the no. 2 life-boat received a message from the coastguard that a small boat was ashore five miles south-east of Cromer on Trimingham beach. The...

Rahoneen

Date: December 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 386

Girvan, Ayrshire. At six o'cJock on the evening of the llth of September, 1958, the coastguard at Portpatrick told the coxswain that cries for help had been heard by the coastguard at Kildonan. After further enquiries the life-boat...

Sarina

Date: Summer 1974

Volume: 43

Issue: 449

Yacht in shoal water RED FLARES were sighted to seaward south of the harbour by Lowestoft Coastguard on the morning of April 13.

The honorary secretary, informed at 0448, gave instructions for maroons to be fired and the...

Prelude

Date: March 1968

Volume: 41

Issue: 423

Holyhead, Anglesey - At 4.37 a.m. on 14th October, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that workmen from British Rail had reported sighting a red flare, possibly outside the breakwater. At 4.39 the coastguard sighted a white...

Susilla

Date: Summer 2003

Volume: 59

Issue: 565

High and dry on the Solway Firth From the shifting sand and mud banks of the Solway Firth, the grounded yacht Susiila radioed for help. It took a joint service by Workington and Silloth Lifeboats to locate the yacht and find a way to reach...