APPENDICITIS At 7.15 p.m. on 27th June, 1965, the local doctor notified the honorary secretary that a man was seriously ill with appendicitis, and asked for the use of the life-boat to transport the patient to the mainland. No other suitable...
CALL TO COBLE At i.io p.m. on 2Oth April, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing coble Neptune had sprung a leak while crabbing near Hornsea.
A helicopter from Leconfield was standing by the...
ERNIE WISE, one of the RNLI's most loyal friends, visited Poole on Friday April 27 to draw the fifth RNLI national lottery in the presence of Mrs Georgina Keen, a member of the Fund Raising Committee and Cdr Ted Pritchard, appeals...
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THE gallantry of the skipper of a fishing vessel, Mr. Ian Innes of Helmsdale, Sutherland, which resulted in the rescue of three other fishermen, has been recognized by the award of the Institution's bronze medal for...
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RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—The brigantine Victoire, of Irvine, bound thence to Dublin with a cargo of coal, showed signals of distress when about two miles east of Eamsey Harbour on the 26th October.
The wind was blowing from the...
Shortly after 4 p.m. on 12th September, 1967, Mr R. W. S. Gould, who is second coxswain of the Bembridge life-boat, was working in his cafe on the beach at Bembridge when his attention was called to a bather in difficulties some 200 yards...
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LlZARD AND CADGWITH. The S.S. Suffolk, of London, 2,900 tons, bound from Baltimore for London, with a cargo of flour, tobacco, &c., and having a large number of cattle on board, struck the rocks at the Lizard Head during a dense fog at 4...
To celebrate the centenary of the establishment of the Walmer Life- boat station the Goodwin Sands and Downs branch of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild launched, at the suggestion of the branch secretary, Mrs. Cavell, a special campaign to...
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Sennen Cove.
On Saturday, the 29th November, 1919, three naval motor launches left •Queenstown, escorted by a destroyer, oa their way to Southampton to be paid off. During the night the wind got up from S.S.W., and by...
Amble, and Boulmer, Northumber- land.—17th October, 1939. A steamer had been reported in distress. Her position was given as nine miles S.E. of Coquet Island, and the Amble motor life-boat was launched. A warning of an air-raid had been...