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THE RNLI'S twenty-first national lottery was drawn on April 29, appropriately enough by Frank Ide, coxswain of Poole lifeboat. People from all over the country bought lottery tickets to raise money so that lifeboatmen, like Frank, can be...
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Reduce the risks Given the antics of condemed yachtsman Eric Abbott who 'navigates' by road maps, isn't it time to formalise some form of mandatory training before people put to sea. This guy shows total contempt for the...
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On the 14th November, dur- ing a heavy westerly gale, the schooner Henrietta,, of Truro, which was at anchor in a dangerous position off the Selsey Bocks, hoisted signals of distress, and the Life-boat Four Sisters was launched to render aid...
DOVER.—While a strong gale was blowing from N.E., accompanied by a heavy sea, on the 25th March, 1898, two vessels in the bay showed signals of distress, and at 10 A.M. the Life-boat Lewis Morice put off to their assistance. She first proct...
STAITHES, YORKSHIRE.—On the morning of the 7th December the weather, which had been wild during the night, calmed down, and at 9 o'clock the fishingcobles proceeded to sea. About 10 o'clock, however, the wind suddenly rose and veered...
The ketch Fanny, of Bideford, stranded on the Leys Reef, off Green Lane Cove, on the even- ing of the 23rd July, during a thick fog. Information reached the Life-boat authorities between 9 and 10 o'clock, and the Life-boat Admiral Sir...
On the morning of the 24th November the coastguard tele- phoned that a vessel was ashore at West Runton. The sea was smooth, but there was a dense fog. The motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 11.30 A.M. She found the motor barge...
Hythe, Kent.—At 10 P.M. on the 7th August the life-boat station received a request for the motor life-boat Viscountess Wakefield to make a search for a small yacht which had put out at 3 P.M., but had not returned. Theweather was fine and...
BROKEN ANCHOR CHAIN Girvan, Ayrshire. At 10 p.m. on 28th August, 1965, the honorary secretary was told by a neighbour that a boat was showing distress signals to the north of Girvan.
The life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis...