MEMBER MAKES SAVE MEMBER No. 4992-F, Mr. P. V. Wright, Newtownards, Co. Down, in his 28 ft converted ship's boat Wavechaser effected a dramatic rescue of three people in a stiff wind and heavy sea in Strangford Lough on 15th July. We...
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COXSWAIN PILOTS GREEK VESSEL Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 9.25 on the evening of the 6th October, 1962, the police informed the honorary secretary that a light had been reported flashing a mile eastward of Hartlepool.
There...
Lady Hamilton would have approved! Bucklers Hard Boat Builders offer a comprehensive facility that includes a full repair & maintenance, custom build facility (power & sail), mobile crane up to 35 tons, summer & winter...
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Lady Hamilton would have approved! Bucklers Hard Boat Builders offer a comprehensive facility that includes a full repair & maintenance, custom build facility (power & sail), mobile crane up to 35 tons, summer & winter...
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CULLERCOATS AND OTHER LlFE-BOATS.
—On the 13th February stormy weather prevailed 'on our north-east coast, and many of-the boats which had proceeded to their fishing-grounds were placed in great jeopardy in returning to...
Lifeboatmen save people and livestock from flooded towns In the early hours of 18 October 1990 the towns of Ballycastle and nearby Cushendall in Co. Antrim were badly flooded, and Red Bay lifeboat station and two of the Crew Members at...
Honorary Life-Governor.
Commander HUBERT B. BOOTHBY, D.S.O., R.N.R., chairman of the Littlehampton branch, has been appointed an honorary life-governor of the Institution in recog- nition of the valuable services which he...
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Fowey, Cornwall. At 4.25 on the afternoon of the 2nd July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a yacht had capsized a mile off Polkerris and that four people were in the water. There was a moderate northerly breeze...
A fortnight later, on Thursday June 4, the fishing vessel Scottish Maid on passage from Wick to Kirkwall went ashore half a mile south of Noss Head Light; there were three men on board.
It was a fine night with variable...
Great' Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk; and Lowestoft, and Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—About 6.30 in the evening, on the 7th of June, 1950, an American Superfortress aeroplane crashed eight miles north-north-east of Smith's...