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Falmouth’s inshore lifeboat crew was involved in a large and unusual rescue operation on 9 June when a pod of dolphins became stranded in Porth Creek on the Percuil River. When the lifeboat arrived on scene, more than 20 had already died,...

COXSWAIN WALTER O. COTTON, who died on the 23rd of May, 1948, at the age of 71, served at four life-boat stations in the Isle of Wight. He began his life-boat service in 1898 as a member of the crew at Brighstone Grange, of which his father...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.

—On the evening of the 9th August the coastguard reported that St. Nicholas light-vessel was firing distress signals for a small yacht ashore in a dangerous position on Scroby Sands. A...

Blyth, and Amble, Northumberland.

At 2.50 on the morning of the 26th of June, 1958, the coastguard informed the Blyth honorary secretary that a fisher- man had reported that his two sons, who were out in the coble...

Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 8.32 on the morning of the 5th of December, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Pradnik of Gdynia, Poland, was signalling for immediate medical assistance. There was a fresh...

Gourdon, Kincardineshire.—At about 9 A.M. on the 2nd May the coastguard reported that a motor vessel was ashore near Johnshaven. A gentle south breeze was blowing, and the sea was smooth, but there was a dense fog.

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ESCORT AFTER MOTOR VESSEL IS REFLOATED Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 1.30 on the morning of the 31st May, 1963, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a vessel was reported to have run ashore at the north pier at the entrance to the River...