YACHT ESCORTED TO ANCHORAGE Poole, Dorset. At 5.20 on the afternoon of the 14th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties off Hook Sands. There was a strong south-easterly breeze...
Newhaven, Sussex. At 12.40, early on the morning of the 25th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the hon- orary secretary that a vessel was firing red flares a quarter of a mile off Birling Gap. The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at...
TWO MEN RESCUED FROM CRAB BOAT Sheringham, Norfolk. At 10.35 on the morning of the 7th August, 1962, the fisheries officer informed the honorary secretary that a crab boat from West Runton was in difficulties off the...
Life-boat 70-002 at Scapa pier, Orkney -At 11.30 a.m. on 18th April, 1969, a man was seen by a member of the life-boat crew to fall from the end of Scapa pier into the sea. The IRB carried aboard the life-boat was launched at 11.31. The tide...
HOWTH, Co. DUBLIN. — On the 29th March, at about 5.15 P.M., during a fresh W. gale and a heavy sea, the coxswain of the Life-boat being on watch at the Coastguard Station, observed a small vessel drag her anchors and go ashore on Ireland'...
THE summer months are practically the high season of the Life-boat Saturday Fund, and throughout the country, north, south, east and west, the various Local and District Committees, including the Ladies' Auxiliaries—without whose...
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NEWBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.—At daylight on the 22nd November the brig Olga, of Rb'nne, timber laden for Sunderland, was seen ashore on a sandbank a little S. of the River Ythan. The wind had blown a gale from the S.E, during the night, and...
PORTHLEVEN. — On the 5th October, twenty-five fishing-boats left the harbour between 8 and 9 o'clock in the morning, the sea then being comparatively smooth.
At 10.30 it was seen by the harbour authorities that there...
Margate, Kent.—At 4.5 in the morn- ing of the 3rd of February, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was showing two red lights about four miles north-north-east of Margate Pier.
At 4.30 he reported that she was...
Mr. Stanhope Bone, who died on the 30th of October, 1959, at the age of 79, was the Institution's Surveyor of Life- boats from 1929 to 1940. He first joined the Institution's surveying staff in 1912 and later served as R.A.S.L. at...
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