St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 11.53 on the afternoon of the 15th of August, 1960, the honorary secretary received a message through the British Railways wireless station asking for the life-boat to go to the help of a yacht which was sinking...
For which Rewards were given at the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Bunbeg, Co. Donegal.—At about 5 P.M. on the 14th April Thomas Boyle, of Bunbeg, who had come in from Innishinney Island...
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Helvick Head, Co. Waterford. About eight o'clock in the morning of the 7th of November, 1951, with a rough sea running and a south-easterly breeze blowing, the life-boat motor mechanic was on the lookout on Helvick Head and saw the motor...
MRS. BELLA MATTISON whose portrait is on page 254 is the last of the fisher- wives of Cullercoats to eollect for the Life-boat Service.
The collections started in 1922 when twenty-six of the fisherwives, among them Mrs....
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A 15 year old youth ran up to a group of fishermen by the harbour at Dunbar, East Lothian, and told them that his brother had been washed off the rocks at the harbour entrance.
Coxswain Robert Brunton, who was present with...
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Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At about 4 P.M. on the 3rd October, 1939, the coastguard reported that a motor yacht, lying about two miles S.W. by S.
of Walton Pier, was flying distress signals. A moderate easterly gale was...
Wells, Norfolk.—At 6.45 P.M. on the 24th July a telephone call was received from the owner of the motor yacht Gazeka, of London, who had come ashore from his yacht, which was lying off Blakeney -Point without a rudder and with her engine...
On the 30th June information was received that a yacht appeared to be ashore near the Cork Sand. She was kept under observation by the coastguard, and it was decided to send the motor life-boat E.M.E.D. to her. She left at 7.25 P.M., and...
YACHT'S ENGINE FAILED Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 3.38 in the afternoon of the 16th of September, 1947, the coastguard reported that a small motor yacht was in difficulties, drifting towards the Inner Shoal, and the motor life-boat Michael...
FLARE SEEN At 5.25 p.m. on 24th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen five miles south of Ferryfield Airport. There was a moderate west-south-westerly breeze, with a choppy sea. It was...