Dover, Kent - At 1.50 p.m. on 8th April, 1970, the life-boat had just returned to her moorings from an earlier service call which had proved fruitless when the coastguard told the honorary secretary that three men were cut off by the tide on...
COMMANDER S. W. F. BENNETTS, D.S.O.
D.S.C., R.N., has been appointed Chief Inspector of Life-boats to succeed Commander T. G. Michelmore, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R.
Commander Bennetts was in command of...
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MAY 1ST. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY. An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the life-boat found nothing. In her own crew of nine were five merchant captains, who were on leave. - Rewards, £5 14s. 6d..
THE Central Committee of the Life-boat Saturday Fund are to be congratulated on the admirable zeal and praiseworthy enthusiasm with which the local Life- boat Saturday Committees and Ladies' Auxiliaries have every where, apparently, been...
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Troon, Ayrshire.—At 2.30 on the after- noon of the 22nd of October, 1955, two boys told the coxswain that a motor boat was in difficulties near the rocks off Ballast Bank. Ten minutes later the life-boat James and Barbara Aitken put out....
Tynemouth, Northumberland. — 22nd April, 1939. The Cullercoats motor life-boat had capsized on exercise, but the Tynemouth life-boat was unable to find any of her crew, six of whom were lost.—Rewards, £9 3s. (A full account of this...
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MARCH 1ST. - ABERDEEN. A ship had been attacked and set on fire, but all survivors were picked up by one of H.M. ships.- Rewards, £15 9s..
Weymouth, Dorset - At 12.02 a.m.
on 9th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was anchored one hundred yards offshore of Chesil Cove. Two men on board had come ashore to obtain fuel...