Dover, Kent.—In the evening of the 8th of May, 1952, a moderate southerly gale was blowing with a rough sea, and at 6.5 Lloyd's Signal Station reported two men in a rowing boat outside the harbour. At 6.30 the life- boat Thomas Markby,...
Dunbar, East Lothian. At 8.15 on the morning of the 24th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the fishing boat Negus with two men aboard was in difficulties near the rocks off Dunbar harbour and needed help. At...
Newquay, Cornwall. At 12.20 on 2ist July, 1965, the honorary secretary learnt that a man had fallen down the cliffs between Treyarnon and Porthcothan.
At 12.25 the IRB launched in light variable airs and slight sea. The man...
Galway Bay - At 4.35 p.m. on 6th March, 1967, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that a patient on Inishere Island had acute appendicitis and needed to be taken to hospital. The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson slipped her...
OCT. 24TH. - CLOVELLY, DEVON.
SHIRE. At 3.45 A.M. a message was received from the Croyde Coastguard station that a vessel was in distress fifteen miles S.W. of Lundy Island. A strong W.N.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate...
APRIL 29TH. - POOLBEG, CO. DUBLIN.
At 6.50 in the evening a message was received from the harbour master at Dun Laoghaire that a small sailing boat off Poolbeg needed help. A strong north-west breeze was blowing, with a...
OCTOBER 3RD. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.
At 8.50 at night a message was received from the Southern Railway Company that a small yacht had fired distress signals off the east pier. A west-north-west breeze was blowing, with a choppy...
MARCH 27TH. - AMBLE, NORTH-UMBERLAND. At midnight on the 26th March the coxswain was asked by the naval officer commanding the Tyne area to take a sealed message to Coquet Island, and the motor life-boat Elizabefh Newton, on temporary duty...
AUGUST 31ST. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At 12.5 P.M. the coastguard reported that a small rowing boat was making signals of distress two miles N. by E. from Porthdinllaen Point. A light but increasing S.S.W. wind was blowing, with a...
JULY 13TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 5 P.M. the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea half a mile east of Buchanness, and the motor life-boat .Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was launched at 5.5 P.M...