20th August. A Dart- mouth boat was thought to be missing, but was found to have been moored at Kingswear, on the other side of the river, without the knowledge of the owner.—Rewards, £11 15s. 6d..
Port Erin, Isle of Man.—At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 22nd of November, 1954, the coxswain reported that the Warden of the Calf of Man, who had been stranded at Port St. Mary for six days by bad weather, was anxious to return to the island...
Coxswain William Watts Williams at the Annual Meeting. - View image in PDF
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Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 5.15 A.M. on the 28th May, 1939, a message was received from Gunfleet Lighthouse through the coastguard that a vessel had gone aground on the Gunfleet Sands. A moderate N.N.W. breeze wasblowing, with a slight...
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the with the Hattersley Newman Mender Ltd Ormskirk, Lancashire.
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Exmouth, South Devon - At 10.7 p.m. on I2th June, 1966, it was reported that red flares had been sighted about two miles off Orcombe point. The lifeboat Michael Stevens left her moorings at 10.20 in a moderate to fresh south south easterly...
Galway Bay.-On 25th October, 1967, the coxswain and crew boarded the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson, under very severe weather conditions, to go to the help of the motor vessel Razani for which special awards were granted. A full account of...
The life-boat at Cromarty has been withdrawn and the conventional life-boat at Hartlepool has been replaced with a fast IRB.
These decisions follow a review undertaken by a working party of the Committee of Management of...
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St. Ives, Cornwall-At 9.36 p.m.
on 20th June, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted five to six miles west north west of Clodgy point. As a report was received that Shackleton...
Mallaig, Inverness-shire - At 1.40 a.m. on 19th March, 1969, the honorary secretary learnt that the fishing boat Ocean Starlight was ashore on the rocks at the entrance to Mallaig harbour. The life-boat E. M. M. Gordon Cubbin slipped her...