TWENTY-THREE HOUR SERVICE TO TRAWLER Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 12.32 on the morning of the 3rd November, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a trawler had grounded on a wreck in Church Bay, Rathlin Island, but that she...
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MOELFRE, JUNE 17 and BROUGHTY FERRY, JULY 17 BRILLIANT SUNSHINE and a fresh northerly wind building up white horses out at sea gave a sparkling day for the handing over ceremony and dedication of Moelfre's new 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat,...
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Met together at Poolefor the DOS's conference: (I. to r.) Kenneth Thirlwell, manager Northern Appeals Depot; George Price, East; Basil Hutchinson, West Midlands; Pat Whittaker, North East; Glyn Williams, Wales; Peter Sturdee, South West;... - View image in PDF
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Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—On the 30th of April, 1957, Lloyd's agent telephoned to say that the motor vessel Caland, of Rotterdam, on passage from Grangemouth to Brest, had a sick man on board and was making for Yarmouth...
Plymouth, Torbay, and Salcombe, Devon.
—On the evening of the 9th January, with a strong south-westerly gale blowing, and a very heavy sea, information was received through the coastguard that signals of distress had been...
• Dr Robert Haworth, the author of First Aid for Yachtsmen (Adlard Coles, £3.95), is not only the honorary medical adviser to the RNLI's station at Barmouth, but he is also an active member of the ILB crew, and in that capacity was...
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New recruits in at the deep end It was Gary Roberts' first ever lifeboat service and Dwynwen Parry was only nine months into her probationary period, but under the wing of Helmsman David Jones, they helped to save a family of four from...
At 2.10 P.M. on the 22nd February, when a whole S.S.E. gale was raging, a schooner, the St. Pierre of Nantes, was observed in distress. With praiseworthy rapidity the Life-boat Ryder was launched off the beach through a very heavy...
Glacton-on-Sea and Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.51 on the evening of the 27th of September, 1956, the Clacton coastguard telephoned that a vessel was in need of help off no. 11 Barrow buoy. At 9.10 the Clacton life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring...