Stronsay, Orkneys - At 4.15 p.m. on 3rd March, 1967, news was received that a sick child at North Ronaldsay required immediate hospital attention. The patient was embarked on the life-boat The John Gellatly Hyndman which slipped her mooring...
Weymouth, Dorset - At 8.14 p.m. on 23rd July, 1967, news was received that the yacht Tonga was in difficulties with engine trouble and was drifting 17^ miles south south west of Portland Bill. After ascertaining that a tow could not be...
At 10.8 P.M. on the 15th June information was received by wire- less from the Cross Sand Lightvessel, through the Coastguard, that a vessel was burning flares about five miles south of the Cross Sand. The Motor Life-boat John and Mary...
When a rip current dragged a pregnant woman out to sea, Wicklow lifeboat volunteers sprang into action – and discovered she was not the only person with her life in danger
Wicklow’s inshore and...
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CULLERCOATS.—On the 8th May the Palmerston Life-boat was launched to theaid of several fishing vessels which hadbeen overtaken by a heavy sea, rendering it dangerous for them to cross the bar in returning to port. The boat remainec some time...
THE honorary secretary of the Porth- dinllaen life-boat station has been both surprised and amused, on receiv- ing the copy of an agreement for a telephone, to find his occupation given, as " prevention of life from...
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31st July.
A signal from the Clacton-on-Sea life- boat was mistaken as a call for more aid.
—Rewards, £8 10s. 6d. (An account of the Clacton service appears on page 156.).
A GIFT of seven shillings has been received from the Isle of Wight.
It is the proceeds of a penny com- petition for guessing the weight of a marrow, grown in a garden at Shanklin, which, weighed twenty-nine,...
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THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Michael F. Hardy, of East- bourne.
He was second-coxswain from 1919 to 1924, and since then he has been coxswain, so that he has now been an officer of the life-boat for nearly...
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27th June. An aero- plane crashed into the sea, killing the pilot. His body was recovered by the life-boat. The Air Council wrote thanking the Institution for the life- boat's services.—Rewards, £5 17s. 6d..