At 6 A.M. on the 9th January, in smooth but thick weather, the fishing-boats of Johnshaven put to sea. An hour or so later the sea commenced to rise and the S.E. wind increased to a gale, and by 10 o'clock it was so rough that it was...
EXMOUTH—On the 20th May, at 12.30 P.M., a fishing-boat was observed in distress outside the bar, a strong S.W. gale having sprung up suddenly accompanied by a heavy sea. The Life-boat Joseph Somes was immediately launched, but before she...
On the morning of the 2nd April the yacht Y Draig, of Portmadoc, left Aberyst- wyth harbour for a cruise in the bay.
There were four persons on board.
The wind was blowing fresh from the E.N.E. By 11 A.M...
EACH YEAR particular recognition is given to crew members taking part in conspicuous rescues, and in 1973 the RNLI annual awards were presented to lifeboatmen from Bridlington (Yorkshire), St Helier (Jersey) and Torbay...
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BRIGHSTONE GRANGE AND BROOKE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—On the afternoon of the 9th March, the ship Sirenia, of Glasgow, bound from San Francisco for Dunkirk with a cargo of wheat, stranded on Atherfield Ledge during a thick fog. The Life-boat...
TOW OF YACHT TAKEN OVER Ramsgate, Kent. At 10.5 on the night of the 13th June, 1963, the Deal coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Wheelsman had taken in tow the yacht Angela of Ramsgate, which had broken down...
The Institution in common with the whole Empire, mourns the decease of His Majesty King Edward the Seventh.
First as President and then as Patron, His Majesty took the warmest interest in the affairs of the Institution and...
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Southwold, Suffolk. At 12.30 p.m.
on 5th June, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boy was stranded on a mud bank in the River Blythe by the rising tide. At 12.40 the inshore rescue boat launched in...
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