Stripped search Wmer lifeboats took part in a search for a drunken skinny dipper in the summer when a pile of clothing was found on the beach. Meanwhile, the nude swimmer was safely tucked up in bed. A fter taking a dip he had been unable...
IN the course of five weeks of the war, from 10th October to 14th November, 1939, the motor life-boat at the Humber was out on service ten times and rescued 102 lives. For three of these services Coxswain Robert Cross was awarded a clasp to...
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At about 6 P.M., on the 12th March, two men put off in a pilot boat to pull a line set at sea. It was too dark to find it and they tried to get into harbour again, and twice were driven back, the boat shipping heavy seas. The third time they...
Newcastle, Co. Down.—At 12.30 in the afternoon of the 2nd of April, 1950, the Cranfield coastguard telephoned that the Haulbowline lighthouse was flying a flag asking for help; and shortly after a message came that it was sig-...
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—At 10.45 on the night of the 7th of April, 1953, a wireless message was received stating that a passenger in the S.S. Cor- rientes, of Glasgow, was seriously ill with a perforated stomach ulcer andasking if the...
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 9.25 on the evening of the 23rd of July, 1953, the Walton-on-the-Naze coast- guard rang up to say that the Harwich police had reported that a man and a woman were stranded on a sandbank in Dovercourt Bay...
SICK MAN TAKEN OFF SWEDISH TANKER Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 4.27 on the morning of the 2nd June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the tanker Esso Stockholm had a very sick seaman on board who needed medical attention...
RESCUE OF A WOMAN AND DOG Port Erin, Isle of Man. At three o'clock on the afternoon of Wednesday the llth of September, 1963, the Ramsey coastguard told the honorary secretary that a woman was stranded on the cliffs at Bradda Head. She...
Dublin.
Centenary Meeting.
THE Centenary Meeting was held on 24th March. The Right Hon. Andrew Jameson, P.C., D.L., the Chairman of the Branch, presided, and, in the course of his speech moving the...
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by Commander F. R. H. Swann, O.B.E., R.N.V.R.
Deputy Chairman of the Institution.
This is the second part of Commander Szoann's article. In this issue he deals with his subsequent visit to...
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