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Indian Chief
RAMSGATE.—Captain BRAINE, the harbour- master of Ramsgate, in reporting the noble service rendered by the Ramsgate Life-boat on the 6th January, on the occasion of the wreck of the ship Indian Chief, on the Long Sands, states that the vessel...
Acting Coxswain:
Acting coxswain: they mav look the part but none of these men have ever taken a lifeboat to sea. They are, in fact, some of the cast from the recent BBC television plav 'Run for the Lifeboat', about a fictional lifeboat community in... - View image in PDF
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Fravizo
Penlee, Cornwall. At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 25th of September, 1960, the port medical officer told the honorary secretary that a baby had been born on the m.v. Fravizo and that the master had asked for a doctor as soon as possible. It...
Loango
On the 7th May a strong gale was blowing from E.S.E., and several vessels sheltering in the Bay were seen to be riding heavily to their anchors. Shortly before 2 P.M.
one of the schooners began to drag her anchors, and her...
Marie Hendrika
YACHT POUNDED AGAINST HARBOUR WALL Dover, Kent. At 1.25 on the afternoon of the 19th May, 1962, the eastern arm signal station informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Marie Hendrika was drifting into the full force of a westsouth-...
Cleave Petrel
Appledore, Devon. At 3.30 p.m. on 18th April, 1965, the coxswain was informed by the Clovelly second coxswain that the cabin cruiser Cleave Petrel of Bideford, sheltering in Lundy Roads, would try and cross the bar on the next tide. There...
The R.A.S.C. Tender Sir Herbert Miles
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 5.25 in the afternoon of the 28th of January, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was sounding her whistle for help, and the No. 2 life-boat, Edmund and Mary Robinson, was launched at...
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St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 10.32 a.m. on 23rd November, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that an aircraft had come down in the sea in the St. Bride's bay area and her crew of two had baled out. The life-boat Joseph Soar...
The Survey Ship H.M.S. Echo
UNSUCCESSFUL SEARCH Margate, Kent. At 3.41 p.m. on ist April, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two men had been lost overboard from the survey ship H.M.S. Echo in the Edinburgh Channel off the North East Shingles...