BODY SEEN At 10.5 a.m. on i3th September, 1965, the honorary secretary was told by the coastguard that the motor patrol vessel Annabel had reported seeing a body in Dunnet Bay. The life-boat Pentland (Civil Service No. 31) was launched at 10...
FOUND EMPTY CANOE At 2.4 a.m. on 2oth November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a i y-year-old boy was missing in the Firth of Forth, and that he was last seen in his canoe the previous morning.
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TWO CANOEISTS DROWN Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At 5.16 on the afternoon of Friday the 23rd August, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man at Penarth had reported to the police that three men in two canoes appeared...
Life-boat Queen of Ashby-de-la-Zouche, Miss Carol Hunt, and her attendants at the gala day organized by the local branch. The coach is 150 years old. - View image in PDF
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At her righting trial the fast slipway boat prototype City of London. - View image in PDF
'capsized' by crane, righted in just five seconds. - View image in PDF
photographs by courtesy of Brian Manhy 19. - View image in PDF
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Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 9.35 on the morning of the 4th of June, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a Sunderland aircraft of the Royal Air Force had crashed when landing half a mile south-east of the life-boathouse.
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North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At 9.45 on the evening of the 1st of October, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Longstone lighthouse-keeper had reported that a vessel had hove to on or near...
Penlee, Cornwall.—Early in the morning of the 21st January, 1939, the Belgian trawler Paul Therese, of Ostend, broke from her moorings in Newlyn Harbour and drifted out to sea. Her crew of six were asleep and unconscious of their danger. A...
Penlee, Cornwall - At 10.40 p.m. on 17th May, 1969, news was received that a yacht had engine failure five miles east of Runnelstone buoy. At 10.50 the life-boat Thomas McGunn, on temporary duty at the station, was launched. It was low water...
At 9.9 p.m. on igth June, 1967, news was received that a speed boat had capsized about 200 yards off the East Terrace breakwater. The life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott, which was on temporary duty at the station, slipped her moorings at...