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A 15 year old youth ran up to a group of fishermen by the harbour at Dunbar, East Lothian, and told them that his brother had been washed off the rocks at the harbour entrance.
Coxswain Robert Brunton, who was present with...
New Ways of Raising Money
'Just Men' was the title of a long poem written by Mr. Anthony S. Burry, of Wickmead Close, Southend, in honour of the Moelfre life-boat and sold in booklet form by the Moelfre branch on their flag day on 28th August, 1967. The poem,...
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Elizabeth, of Goole
SKEGNESS.—On the 14th April, at 8.30 A.M., the ketch Elizabeth, of Goole, while on a voyage from London to Gainsbro', was observed off this station in a disabled state, with signal of distress flying, and the crew in the rigging. A gale,...
Kate and Mary, of Arklow
On the llth Sep- tember, the smack Kate and Mary, of Ark- low, was observed riding at anchor in a dangerous position during a fierce gale of wind from the S.E., a boy only having been left on board. The Arundel Vendbles life-boat, stationed...
Masterpiece
PALLING, NORFOLK.—The Coastguard on duty having observed a small boat about a mile N. of the station, with a signal of distress flying, on the morning of the 26th August, informed the Coxswain of the Life-boat. He at once summoned the crew...
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Torbay, Devon. — At 6.40 in the evening of the 26th of June, 1952, the police telephoned for the help of the life-boat for a woman, marooned on a rock off Mansands. She had had a heart attack. With the bowman in charge of a scratch crew the...
Stormalong
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.37 oil the morning of the 18th of May, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a yacht was burning a flare near West Shoebury Buoy. At 6.10 the life- boat Greater London II, Civil Service No. 30, which had been...
Girl Nan, Galilee,Success, Provider A,Venus and Pilot Me.
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morn- ing of the 26th of November, 1951, a strong north-west wind was blow- ing and the sea was rough. At 11.30 fishermen reported that the harbour entrance was dangerous. Six local fishing vessels were known to be...
Diver
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 3.40 in the afternoon of the 4th of July, 1948, the North Foreland Radio reported a small yacht, the Diver, of Gillingham, anchored close to No. 1 Yantlett Buoy and in need of help. The motor life- boat Greater...