After Mr. Robert Jefford, a member of the IRB crew at Lyme Regis, and Miss Estelle Butler, the youngest member of the local ladies' life-boat guild, were married at Uplyme Parish Church, Lyme Regis, on 8th October, 1967, the couple left...
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The Maud Smith Bequest Award for the outstanding act of lifesaving during 1983 has been made to Crew Member Arthur Hill of Largs, who was awarded the silver medal for the rescue on July 24 of a young girl trapped in a small airpocket under...
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BRIGHTON.—The barque Bruckley Castle, of Glasgow, bound from Grimsby for Santos, Brazil, with coal and railway sleepers, in bringing up in order to land a pilot, in a moderate gale from E.N.E.
and a rough sea, stranded...
NOVEMBER 20TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. An air-sea rescue launch’s engine had broken down, but she was able to repair it and go on her way. - Rewards, £7 5s..
AUGUST 30TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A British bombing aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but another boat had saved four of the crew from a rubber dinghy, and the fifth man could not be found.- Rewards, £12 16s. 6d..
OCTOBER 9TH. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.
A British bomber aeroplane had been reported in the sea eighteen miles S.E. of Douglas, which would make her 39 miles from Moelfre, but it was found that the lifeboat was not needed and she...
While sheltering in Ballycotton Bay on the morning of 26th March, the steam trawler Macaw, of Milford Haven, was driven ashore on the Black Rocks by a strong S.W. breeze with a rough sea and a heavy ground swell. Information that she was in...
WEXFORD. — Signals of distress were shown by the fishing-yawl Liberator, of Wexford, which had struck on the bar, there being an insufficient depth of water to enable her to cross, at 2.30 P.M. on the 23rd February. The No. 1 Life-boat...
TOW FOR CABIN CRUISER THROUGH HEAVY SEAS Troon, Ayrshire. At 11.45 on the morning of the 9th September, 1962, the pilot at Troon harbour told the coxswain that a cabin cruiser was drifting close to Gailes shore. At 11.55 the life-boat James...
Seaham,"? Durham.—At 4.27 in the afternoon of the 15th of August, 1948, the coastguard reported a boy drifting seawards in a rubber dinghy off Hoiden, and the motor life-boat Elizabeth Witts Allen was launched at 4.55 in a light...