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Breeches Buoy Rescue In Whole Gale

Date: March 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 391

ON the 27th of October, 1959, the day on which the Moelfre life-boat carried out the service which earned her cox- swain the gold medal, the crew of the Islay, Hebrides, life-boat also per- formed an outstanding service in ex- ceptionally...

Category: Services

None (11)

Date: March 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 325

— 14th November.

Lightvessels had fired signals, but it was found that they were calling for their tender, as one of the crew of the Edinburgh Lightvessel had died.— Rewards, £16 17s. 6d..

None (3)

Date: March 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 329

Plymouth, Devon. — 26th October.

Strange lights had been seen, but it was learned that they were being used by a party who were trying to rescue a cow which had fallen over the cliffs on to the shore.—Rewards, £2 12s....

Bullfrog

Date: December 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 398

The following account of a service by the Lizard, Cornwall, life-boat on the 30th June, 1961, was received too late for inclusion in the September number of the Life-boat: At 11.23 in the morning the coast- guard informed the honorary...

A Sailing Boat

Date: December 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 332

Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—15th July.

A sailing boat had capsized in a moderate N.W. gale. A French destroyer picked up one man, and the other man on board could not be found.— Rewards, £9 6s..

Fishing Cobles

Date: November 1911

Volume: 21

Issue: 242

Twenty-one of the fishing cobles were at sea on the 17th April when a heavy ground swell got up and increased as the tide ebbed, making it quite unfit for the cobles to take the harbour. Between 8 and 9 A.M.

the fishing...

A Fishing Boat

Date: March 1933

Volume: 29

Issue: 313

1st October. A fishing boat in distress, but the man on board had already been rescued by a small boat from the shore.—Rewards, £19 13s. 6d. (See also Shore-boat Services, page 22.).

An Aeroplane (161)

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

OCTOBER 24TH. - ABERDEEN. An aeroplane had caught fire and come down in the sea, but the airman was picked up by a naval vessel. - Rewards, £14 11s. 6d..

An Aeroplane (133)

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

SEPTEMBER 6TH. - SENNEN COVE, CORNWALL. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boat was recalled. - Rewards, £4 16s. 6d..

Olive

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

APRIL 27TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.

At 8 A.M. a telephone message was received from the Fishery Bailiff asking for help for a fishing boat which was at sea off Weybourne three miles away. A strong, increasing N.E. wind was...