THREE CANOES IN DISTRESS Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—During the afternoon of the 3rd of May, 1947, three young men, visitors, got into diffi- culties while out in canoes off Colwell Bay. One of the three canoes got ashore safely; another...
Dover, Kent - At 1.50 p.m. on 8th April, 1970, the life-boat had just returned to her moorings from an earlier service call which had proved fruitless when the coastguard told the honorary secretary that three men were cut off by the tide on...
At the request of the Government a rescue craft provided by the Royal National Life-boat Institution is now stationed aboard a lightvessel, from which she may be used for life-saving purposes. The experiment is a joint venture by the R.N.L.I...
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Peterhead, Aberdeenshire - At 5.25 p.m. on 26th October, 1969, the coastguard reported that a rock climber was stranded on the cliffs just south of Buchanness lighthouse.
At 6.24 the life-boat James Mariska Joicey was...
Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 2.50 on the afternooon of the 30th of November, 1958, the coxswain received a message from the honorary secretary of the Bridlington life-boat station that the fishing boat Seafarer II of Bridlington had broken...
Anstruther, Fifeshire. At 1.40 on the afternoon of the 31st of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat was flying a distress signal near the North Carr beacon. At 1.50 the life-boat James and Ruby Jackson was...
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 7.20 on the morning of the 14th of August, 1959, the honorary secretary was informed that the trawler Marujita Lopez of San Sebastian had an injured man on board and that she was off Begnis Island. The life-boat...
TOW FOR YACHT WITH SIX ABOARD New Brighton, Cheshire. At 1.47 on the afternoon of the 5th August, 1962, a member of the life-boat crew told the honorary secretary that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties on the edge of the Burbo bank and...
Appledore, Devon. An account of the service by this life-boat on ist January, 1966, will appear in the next issue of THE LIFE-BOAT..