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LIFEBOATMAN ALONE ABOARD PILOT BOAT PLUCKS CREW TO SAFETY IN SEVERE GALE Three rescued from tug after night collision with coaster Shane Coleman, Second Coxswain/Mechanic of the Lowestoft lifeboat has been awarded the RNLI's Bronze medal...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1954
Persons Time of rescued from 1954. Launching. shipwreck.
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CADABRA: Sandhursts' floating showroom
Throughout 1973 the motor yacht Cadabra toured the coasts of Great Britain on a sales promotion for Sandhurst Marketing Ltd, a firm of stationers.
At the end of the tour in January, Captain Nigel Dixon, RN, Director of the...
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Heptarchy
Ten saved as disabled yacht is struck by storm force winds The Lizard's Tyne class lifeboat David Robinson was at sea for more than 12 hours in atrocious conditions on 30 May 1993 when she went to the aid of a 56ft yacht in difficulties...
Sesam
All in a season's work RNLI Divisional Inspector Colin Williams gives a round up of all things operational this Spring in the island of Ireland Our crews experience everything that the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean can muster, as...
Gala
At 11 A.M. on the 25th July during a moderate N.E.
gale the Coxswain of the Life-boat May- hew Medwin observed a vessel in distress in Peel Bay. The crew of the Life-boat were assembled very smartly and the boat launched....
Dirk II
Margate, Kent.—At 6.25 in the even- ing of the 1st of June, 1952, the coast- guard telephoned that a yacht needed help four miles to the north of the North-East Spit Buoy, about ten miles north of North Foreland, and at 6.35 the life-boat...
Bernard Claudine
St Helier, Jersey. At 3.34 on the afternoon of the 12th of August, 1958, a message was received that a yacht was attempting to tow another yacht two and a half miles from St. Helier harbour.
The tow rope was seen to part on...
Mignonette, of Southampton
Weymouth, Dorset - At 8.28 p.m. on 12th September, 1966, red flares were sighted in Weymouth Bay. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke left her moorings at 8.48 in a strong westerly wind and a rough sea. The tide was ebbing. She proceeded to a...