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TOW FOR FISHING BOAT IN GALE North Sunderland, Northumberland.

At 7.30 on the evening of the llth August, 1962, the second coxswain told the honorary secretary that a local fishing boat had broken down off Beadnell Point. A...

Bembridge, Isle of Wight, inshore rescue boat on 19th August went to the aid of a dinghy in difficulties off Whitecliffe point.

The IRB was launched at 1.50 p.m. in a moderate south westerly wind with a rough...

HELICOPTERS HELPED Fowey, Cornwall. At 4.46 p.m. on 2ist October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat had been reported ashore on the east side of Dodman Point. One body had been recovered but another was...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk - At 8 p.m. on 22nd June, 1967, it was learned that a R.A.F. helicopter had crashed about half a mile south of the life-boat station. The life-boat The Royal Thames was launched at...

On the 3rd April when the fishing fleet were return- ing from fishing a nasty cross sea was running at the harbour entrance, caused by a strong easterly breeze which had been blowing, and the broken sea on the bar together with the ebb tide...

SOUTH-EASTERN DISTRICT Rescues by IRBs in April were undertaken by the following stations: Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 11.54 a.m. on i8th April, 1966, while the IRB was being exercised with the district inspector on board, the crew were...

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