Lerwick, Shetland*.—While the life-boat was taking the food and mails to Gmtness on the 1st of March, 1947, a doctor, whom she had taken to Quarff on the 28th of February, but who had been unable to land, telephoned that the patient there...
The first of the new 52-foot glass reinforced plastic life-boats to be built from the latest 52-foot prototype fast afloat boat (see pictures page 109) designed by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is to be paid for by voluntary...
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After the Weeley Festival in Essex, where thousands of pop fans congregated, a letter was received by The Daily Telegraph enclosing a cheque for £5 for the R.N.L.I. It was explained by the senders, Mr. Peter F. Amott and...
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West Mersea, Essex. At 4.15 p.m.
on 24th June, ^65, the coastguard reported that a cabin cruiser was drifting down the river Blackwater past Stone.
At 4.20 the IRB launched in a strong gusting to near gale...
St. Ives, Cornwall. At 2.43 p.m. on 2ist August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a man had fallen off., or had been washed off, the rocks at Clodgy Point. At 2.45 the IRB launched in a fresh west-north-westerly breeze and rough sea. The...
Penlee, Cornwall- At 3 p.m. on loth April, 1966, the honorary secretary was informed that the life-boat's services had been requested at 11 o'clock to take a sick woman off a Liberian tanker. The lifeboat Solomon Browne was launched...
Aldeburgh, Suffolk - At 9.10 p.m.
on 13th June, 1966, the coxswain was told that a yacht lying off Aldeburgh was being kept under observation. At 9.30 the yacht fired a distress signal. The lifeboat The Alfred and Patience...
Eastbourne, Sussex - At 4.44 p.m. on I2th July, 1966, a yacht with one man on board was reported in difficulties four miles south-east of Beachy Head. A small coaster was standing by the boat. There was a gale from the south-west with a...
MOTHER WAS ILL At 9.30 p.m. on 2nd June, 1964, the police told the honorary secretary that H.M.S. Malcolm was due to arrive off Scarborough at 10 p.m. and had to land a rating who needed to see his seriously ill mother. The high tide and...
BLOWN ASHORE Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 12.1 p.m.
on 6th June, 1964, the second coxswain told the honorary secretary that one of the local pleasure boats had been blown ashore by the fresh south-easterly breeze and that...