Jayne Edmunds and Erie Jones were each presented with an inscribed wrist watch.. - View image in PDF
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Swanage, Dorset - At 3.51 p.m. on 7th July, 1969, the coastguard reported that a sailing dinghy had capsized in Swanage bay. The lifeboat R.L.P. was launched at 4.2 in a fresh north westerly wind with a choppy sea. The tide was flooding.<...
PORTAFERRY/NEWCASTLE | 11 AUGUST
Portaferry and Newcastle RNLI crews were part of a multi-service response to a large-scale rescue on Strangford Lough, Co Down. Eighty-eight boats were taking part in a...
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COMMUNICATIONS AND NAVIGATIONAL AIDS OF A MODERN LIFEBOAT by Lieutenant Ernest Gough, RN STAFF OFFICER (COMMUNICATIONS), RNLISEEING AN OFFSHORE LIFEBOAT for the first time, you may wonder why she has so many antennae and gadgets sprouting...
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PIBL.—A schooner was observed at daylight, on the 28th October, in a dangerous position midway between Piel and Fleetwood; she had a signal of distress flying, and was apparently drifting helplessly in the heavy gale which was then blowing...
Hartlepool, Durham.—At 2.47 early on the morning of the 9th of February, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that a boat off the Palliser Works, north of Hartlepool, was burning flares, and at 3.15 the life-boat The Princess Royal, Civil Service...
Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 7.47 on the evening of the 25th October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that red flares had been seen south of Lowestoft look-out station.
The life-boat Michael Stephens left...
on 2nd March, saved 6 men from the brig La Jeune Maria Therese, of Labourne, and took off 5 men from the barque Perseverance, of Scarborough, which vessels had been in collision..
During a strong southerly wind and heavy rain, on the 14th De- cember, signal guns were heard from the lightship in the Prince's Channel. The Quiver No. 1 life-boat, stationed at Margate, was launched, and proceeded across the Margate...