BOAT WAS OVERDUE Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 10.15 p.m. on 24th May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two men who had gone in a canoe to help a motor boat with an engine breakdown had been away for a long time. Although...
SICK WOMAN BROUGHT FROM ISLAND Galway Bay. At noon on the 27th February, 1962, the local doctor received an urgent message to go to Inishmaan Island to attend a sick woman. As no other suitable boat was available, the doctor asked for the...
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DUBLIN. Early in the afternoon information was received from the outgoing mail steamer Hibernia and the Coast Life-saving Service that a yacht was in distress some ten miles east of the Kish...
To Sir FREDERICK W. MONEYPEXNY, C.V.O., C.B.E., of the Belfast Lough Branch Committee, in recognition of his valuable co-operation for many years, the Gold Pendant and Record of Thanks.
To Mr. HENRY BTODEN, on his...
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Mrs C M Btirrie ill The Famous Grouse naming ceremony photograph by courtesy of Gilbert Hampton Phnlograpln. - View image in PDF
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ANOTHER ENGINE BROKEN DOWN Rhyl, Flintshire.—At 10.15 on the night of the 19th of November, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that flares had been seen two miles north-north-east iof the pier, and the motor life-boat The Gordon Warren was...
Fig.4:.. . and stowed on one side. Edian Courtauld, her decks stripped for action, was at Cardnell Brothers for partial survey. Her new air bag has already been fitted to her after cabin top.. - View image in PDF
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"NOW I CAN HEAR WELL I'VE A HAPPY HUSBAND" "I'm not what you'd call deaf", says Daphne Scott of Freshwater in the Isle of Wight, "but I am hard of hearing. It's made life difficult for years. As I got...
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Having a ball The Royal Solent Yacht club held its annual charity auction and regatta on 29 and 30 May - raising a whopping £15,480 for RNLI funds.
The weekend event which also included a ball, a barbecue lunch... - View image in PDF
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Swanage, Dorset - At 4.50 p.m. on 2nd September, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been fired from a trimaran one and a half miles south of Peveril Point. At 5 o'clock the lifeboat R.L.P. was...