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Injured men A HANG GLIDER crashed on the rocks of Beachy Head and the pilot badly injured was reported to Eastbourne lifeboat station by Fairlight Coastguard at 1524.on April 23. Eight minutes later the D class ILB was launched and, crewed...
Manx Lass, of Peel
SEPTEMBER 18TH. -PORT ERIN, AND PEEL, ISLE OF MAN. At 11.21 in the morning the Castletown coastguard reported to the Port Erin life-boat station that the Peel life-boat, had launched at eleven o’clock to search for the herring drifter Manx...
Dolphin
Margate, Kent.—At 1.5 in the after- noon of the 5th of June, 1949, the coastguard telephoned information re- ceived from Herne Bay that a motoryacht was ashore on the Hook Sand- bank flying a distress signal, and the life-boat Lord...
Cornel
Tenby, Pembrokeshire, and Minehead, Somerset.—At 7.40 on the morning of the 22nd of December, 1955, the Tenby coastguard rang up the Tenby life-boat station to say that the motor vessel Cornel, of Cardiff, bound for Bristol with a cargo of...
Myrtle
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—On the morning of the 19th September the Davaar lightkeeper reported that a dinghy with two men on board, belonging to the motor yacht Myrtle, was missing. The Myrtle was on a pleasure trip hunting basking sharks....
H.M.S. Witherington (1)
APRIL 29TH. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND, AND SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. At 11.3 at night a message was received at Cullercoats from the Blyth coastguard that a destroyer was in need of help at the entrance to the Tyne. A strong westnorth- west...
Pastime
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 11.50 A.M.
on the 3rd July, 1938, a message was received from the Wyre lightkeepers, through the harbour authorities, that a motor boat was in difficulties about a quarter of a mile from King's...
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Amy II
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 5.22 on the afternoon of the 9th of September, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that East Goodwin Lightvessel had reported a yacht near it in urgent need of help.
Eleven minutes later the...
Thrum Hall School In Rochdale
On passage: a 24-hour sponsored sail to raise £300 for the RNLI was undertaken by nine 13-year-olds from Thrum Hall School in Rochdale. They took turns to helm a 16ft Wayfarer dinghy round Hollingworth Lake under the watchful eye of Lt... - View image in PDF
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