Four days afterwards a sudden gale from N.E., accompanied by rain, sprang up on this coast, and great excitement was occasioned at Eedcar from the fact of there being five fishing cobles out at sea. The gale came on between 7 and 8 A.M., and...
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Newhaven, Sussex. — On the 26th of March, 1951, the Newhaven life- boat rescued the crew of six of the Belgian trawler Christiane II, of Ostend.
Rewards: to Coxswain William JHarvey, the 'thanks of the Institution on...
Rhyl, Flintshire. At 6.37 on the evening of the 22nd of June, 1960, the coastguard passed on to the honorarysecretary a report from the Rhyl police that a child was adrift on a rubber raft, which was floating out to sea off the Golden Sands...
On. the 4th November, at 4 A.M., the No. 1 Life-boat Oovent Garden put off, signals of distress having been shown from the North Scroby Sand, and the light ships continually firing guns and rockets, during a strong gale from the E.S.E., and...
WINTERTON.—Shortly after 5 o'clock on the evening of the 12th March, the cutter rigged shrimping-boat Adeline, of Great Yarmouth, was observed to ship a sea, when about half a mile S.E. of Winterton, and to instantly founder. An alarm...
(Above) At Twickenham and District branch's annual RNLJ ball, held at York House, Twickenham, on January 23, over £1,000 was raised by the tombola and raffle, for which more than 500 items were donated by local... - View image in PDF
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Stronsay, Orkneys - At 6 a.m. on 5th March, 1966, the honorary secretary received a telephone message from the doctor on Sanday Island stating that he had an urgent case requiring immediate hospital attention in Kirkwall. Because of land...
BBC"Onedin Line' stars Peter Gilmore, Anne Stally brass and Howard Lang, on location at Milford Haven, attended a reception at Pembrokeshire Yacht Club in April at which club members who are also members of Hakin Point branch ran a... - View image in PDF
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Swanage, Dorset - At 6.15 p.m. on 18th June, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two men were clinging to a capsized dinghy off Durleston head. At 6.21 the life-boat R.L.P. was launched in a moderate south westerly wind...