Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 1.10 p.m. on 9th November, 1966, distress signals were reported on Sunk Head tower. At 1.45 the maroons were fired, and at 2.3 the life-boat Edian Courtauld was launched in a fresh northerly breeze and a choppy...
Steve Vince, the coxswain of Poole's Brede class lifeboat holds one of the winning tickets in the draw for the RNLI's 69th quarterly lottery.With him are members of the Poole crew and Anthony Oliver, the Institution's deputy head... - View image in PDF
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ANOTHER SNOW-BOUND TOWN HELPED Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—On the 14th of March, 1947, when the Portpatrick district was snowbound and food was short, the motor life-boat Jeanie Spiers went to Stranraer to fetch bread and other provisions....
DOCTOR ON BOARD At i p.m. on 28th February, 1964, the local doctor told the honorary secretary that a seriously ill patient needed immediate hospital treatment. There was a strong south-westerly breeze with a moderate sea, and the tide was...
Relief Brede: RNLB Enid of Yorkshire, a 33ft Brede for the RNLI's relief fleet, after her naming in Bridlington Harbour on June 22. photograph by courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
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DIED AFTER FALL Howth, Co. Dublin. At 5 p.m. on I2th June, 1964, the gardai told the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen down the cliff at Balscadden and could be seen in the water. The tide had been ebbing for two hours and there was a...
MAN TAKEN OFF LIGHTVESSEL Arklow, Co. Wicklow. At 7.10 on the evening of the 18th August, 1962, the Wicklow honorary secretary asked if the Arklow life-boat would land a member of the crew of the Codling lightvessel as the man's father...
Aith, Shetland Isles - At 9 p.m. on 2oth February, 1967, at the request of the medical authorities, the life-boat was made ready to convey a doctor and a relief district nurse to the Island of Foula.
The resident nurse was...
Selsey, Sussex.—18th August, 1938.
At about 4 P.M. the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the life-boat station that two women bathers were in difficulties off the West Beach, Selsey.
A moderate...
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. At 3.22 on the afternoon of the 16th August, 1961, the police informed the honorary secretary that a girl who had been bathing off Inverallochy sands had been swept out to sea and was in difficulties.
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