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All inquiries concerning YLA matters should be addressed to: Mr. Alasdair Garrett, Secretary, Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Association, 29a Castle Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 ITT.

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Ox the 15th of December, 1950, Mr.

W. A. Haines, of Burnham Overy, near Wells, on the Norfolk coast, was out musselling in the Wash, with another man, in a converted life-boat. The wind was blowing hard, with squalls of...

Aberdeen, and Newburgh, Aberdeenshire.

—On the morning of the 16th December the Cockenzie drifter Margaret and Francis was bound, light, from Burghead to Leith, with a crew of three on board. A whole southerly gale was...

Your Shout To add your shout, write to the Editor at [email protected] or RNLI Headquarters, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset, BH15 1HZ Dear Editor I am in my 90s but one thingI have never forgotten is when I ‘just went for a swim’. I was...

In the Summer issue of the Lifeboat, in a news article on page 14 entitled ‘RWCs on station’, we mistakenly stated that Bude was in Devon.

Bude is actually in Cornwall. On page 13 we inadvertently merged two distinct...

27th February. A trawler stranded, but her crew were landed by the life- saving apparatus company.—Rewards, £13 19s. 6d..

Wicklow—13th May, 1939. A yacht had run on the rocks, but all attempts to refloat her failed.—Rewards, £5 5s. 6d..

Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—26th August, 1939. Flares had been reported, but the life-boat could find nothing.— Rewards, £20 11s. 6d..