Stronsay, Orkneys. At 11.20 on the night of the 17th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that red rockets had been sighted to the south-east in the direction of Papa Westray. The life-boat John Gellatly Hyndman...
Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 8th of September, 1960, a message was received that a small yacht with two people on board had been seen drifting ashore on Traigh Sands eight miles from Mallaig....
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 8.46 on the evening of the 26th of March, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Hustler, with one man on board, was out of control on Breydon Water. At 8.50 when the...
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 4.30 on the afternoon of the 16th May, 1961, the signal station reported that the yacht Overlord, which had a crew of six, had been dismasted thirty miles west of Hanois lighthouse and that the tanker Volvatella...
Penlee, Cornwall. At 9.55 on the evening of the 25th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the fishing boat Susan was burning flares off Cudden Point. A fresh east-north-east wind was blowing with a choppy sea, and...
Hastings, Sussex. At 2.4 on the morning of the 4th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen about six miles east-north-east of the Fairlight look-out post. The life-boat M.T.C. was launched...
Falmouth, Cornwall. At 9.45 on the morning of the 16th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a small canoe had capsized off Castle beach and that its two occupants were in the water. The life- boat Crawford and...
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At 8.50 on the morning of the 28th October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Ees Teyr of Beaumatis was aground on the south bank of Caer- narvon bar. The...
The paragraph headed 'Life-boat Up Thames' on page 149 of the July Journal referred, of course, to Kingston and Surbiton. It had been planned that those mentioned should be there, but in fact they were not, and the 'mystery...
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THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving in 1956 has been won by Reginald Carey, of Coverack, Cornwall.
Reginald Carey, who is normally second coxswain of the Coverack lifeboat, was acting coxswain when the...
Category: Awards