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Couple rescued from foot of cliffs Redcar lifeboat helmsman Peter Hodge has been awarded a Bronze Medal for the outstanding rescue of two walkers and a dog cut off by the tide on 19 January. The couple and dog were trapped atthe foot of high...
Telegraph
RAMSGATE.—Signal guns having been fired by the light-vessels, the Life-boat Bradford in tow of the steam-tug Aid, left the harbour at 6.45 A.M. on the 18th March, and found the barquentine Telegraph, of Frederikshald, bound from Ghristiania...
Benimora
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At ten o'clock on the night of the 7th of September, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was overdue on passage from Milford Haven to Fishguard and that a woman had reported...
Yacht Marieke
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 1.45 on the morning of the 28th of July, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a Dutch barge, which had an- chored off the east pier, had engine trouble and needed help to enter the harbour. At 5.31 the...
Sampan
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. On the evening of the 8th of March, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat, which had left Newhaven for Shoreham Harbour at noon, had not arrived. At 10.30 the life-boat Rosa Woodd and...
Sgiandubh
Amble, Northumberland. At 4.42 on the afternoon of the 9th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that two men had been seen cling- ing to a dinghy which had capsized at the north end of Coquet Island. There was a light...
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Port St. Mary, Isle of Man-At 6.20 p.m. on i6th April, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that flares and a signal fire had been sighted on the north end of the Calf of Man. There was a strong easterly wind with a moderate...
Lowering Ships' Boats at Sea
IN December, 1859, the Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION presented to Mr. CHARLES CLIFFORD, of London, a vote of thanks,' inscribed on vellum, in acknowledgment of his indefatigable exertions in inventing and...
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A Dinghy
JANUARY 29TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 9.31 A.M. the naval base at Great Yarmouth reported, through the coastguard, that an airman could be seen in a dinghy to the N.N.E. A light wind was then blowing from E.N.E., but it...
Time
In a strong N. wind on the 18th July the hull of a new steamer—the Time, built for Melbourne—was being towed from the shipbuilder's yard to West Hartlepool in order to have her engines fitted. The hawsers carried away and the Time was...