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Direct debits On the sheet that carried your address label with this journal, you will find a direct debit form. The label carries a code which is either DD-PC or NN-NA. If your code is DD-PC we hope you will consider completing this form...
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Anne
FLARES WERE SEEN Dungeness, Kent. At 8.35 p.m. on 22nd October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen off Dengemarsh. There was a moderate westerly breeze with a rough sea. At 9.30 the life-boat Mabel...
A Sailing Dinghy
DIVERTED ON PASSAGE Life-boat O.N. 44-001. At i p.m. on I4th February, 1965, the life-boat O.N.
44-001 received whilst on passage between Littlehampton and Cowes a radio message from the coaster Chartsman that she had...
A Dinghy and a Boat
Whitstable, Kent. At approximately 2.15 p.m. on 8th September, 1965, the honorary secretary was told that a small dinghy with one person on board was in difficulties a half a mile off shore. At 2.20 the IRB launched in a strong southwesterly...
Sinus
Sheringham, Norfolk. At i.io p.m.
on 5th September, 1965, the motor cruiser Sinus was reported to have broken down four miles north-east of the lifeboat station. The coastguard was informed and the motor cruiser was kept...
Blanche and Sally
TWO BOATS FOUND At 10.26 a.m. on ipth August, 1964, the coastguard informed the life-boat's second coxswain that two fishing boats near Blakeney Overfalls were reported to be making very heavy weather and would probably need to be...
Golden West
MAY 30TH. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. At noon the coastguard reported that the naval authorities had asked for help for the motor fishing yawl Golden West, of Wick, which was on Admiralty service, with a crew of three, and had...
Vellum for Fowey Mechanic
THE thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded to Assistant Mechanic James Turpin of Fowey, Cornwall, who swam a hundred yards through broken water from the Fowey life-boat to the help of a young woman and an auxiliary...
Category: Awards
A Ship
On the 27th November a boat with four men in her was upset in the entrance to Teignmouth harbour, when attempting to board a vessel coming in.
One man succeeded in getting on board the ship, but the boat herself, with two...
Forthcoming Articles
OWING to the space given in this number to the Rye disaster a number of articles which would otherwise have appeared have been held over until the next issue.
They include an article on the Life-boat Service in Iceland...
Category: Articles