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DART | 2 SEPTEMBER
Walkers on the South West Coast Path got front-row seats for an unusual type of rescue when the crew of Dart's inshore lifeboat went to help a calf. The animal had become wedged in a cave after...
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OCTOBER 30TH. - MINEHEAD, SOMERSET.
At about 11.5 A.M. the resident naval officer at Watchet reported an object at sea two miles to the N.E. of Minehead. It was thought that it might be a rubber dinghy as an aeroplane had...
Bridget, of Dungarvan
DUNGARVAN.—At 3 P.M. on the 2nd August, the Life-boat Christopher Ludlow was launched from this station, and, after an hour and a half of hard rowing, the crew succeeded in boarding the brigantine Bridget, of Dungarvan, which vessel while on...
Fishing Cobles (1)
The coxswain received a telephone message about 10 A.M. on the llth January, stating that three fishing cobles were in danger off Alnmouth and unable to make any headway against the prevail- ing W.S.W. gale and ebb tide. The Life-boat...
Vivid
The fish- ing boat Vivid, belonging to Wexford, struck on the Dogger Bank when re- turning from the fishing grounds on the llth January. Signals of distress were made, and with great promptness the crew of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 15...
Horace
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 11.15 on the morning of the 21st of November, 1954, the Customs Water Guard Officer reported that the eight-feet dinghy Horace, of New Brighton, was drifting in the Rock Channel with three boys on board. At 11.42...
Godetia
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At five o'clock in the afternoon, on the 4th of Novem- ber, 1949, the coastguard reported a flare three miles north-north-east of Wick. Half an hour later the life-boat City of Edinburgh was launched in a rough sea...
Halloween
New Quay, Cardiganshire.—At 4.35 in the afternoon, on the llth of August, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a motor and sailing boat was burning flares two miles east-north-east of New Quay. Fifteen minutes later the life-boat St....
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Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 12.3 on the afternoon of the 10th of March, 1947, the Medical Officer of Health asked for the life-boat for a woman at Outrabis- ter, Lunnaness, who must be brought at once to hospital at Lerwick for an...
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Stronsay, Orkneys. At 3.30 on the afternoon of the llth of October, 1958, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat could be used to convey a child who was seriously ill to Kirkwall hospital. As there was no other boat...