DANGER FOR SHIPPING Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. At 9.43 p.m. on 30th July, 1964, the Naval Rescue Co-ordination Centre at Haulbowline informed the life-boat's mechanic that the speedboat Elizabeth was overdue on a trip from Holyhead to...
Whitby, Yorkshire. At 12.45 P-m- on 29th November, 1965, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that there were three keel boats still at sea in conditions that were exceptionally bad and getting worse. The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth...
Members of the crew of the new Eyemouth, Berwickshire, 44' Waveney lifeboat, named Eric Seal in memory of the late Sir Eric Seal, KBE, CB, a former vice-president of the RNLI and chairman of the Civil Service and Post Office Lifeboat... - View image in PDF
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At daylight on the morning of the 13th January, a brig was observed on the Holm Sand. A yawl put off and reached the vessel, but the crew refusing to leave, she returned to the shore.
The wind, which had been blowing...
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.24 on the evening of the 9th of June, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the owner of the local motor pleasure boat Nemo II had reported that his boat had broken from her moorings and was drifting towards the...
The Motor j fishing boat Renown left Lerwick at 10 P.M. on 23rd May for the fishing grounds off the Isle of Noss, and as she , had not returned by the afternoon of j the following day, the Motor Life-boat j was sent out at 4.5...
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. — llth February. A man fell off a breakwater, and was picked up by the life-boat, but although artificial respiration was applied at once, he could not be revived.
—Rewards, £8...
NOVEMBER 3RD. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
While bombing aeroplanes were returning from operations the life-boat stood by at sea, but her services were not needed.
- Rewards, £32 8s..
Dover, Kent.—At 6.10 on the evening of the 1st of July, 1956, the Eastern Arm signal station reported that a small sailing yacht was in difficulties close inshore to South Foreland. At 6.25 the life-boat Southern Africa put out in a rough...
YACHT RESCUED At 6.10 p.m. on i2th June, 1965, the motor yacht Fortune II was observed flying a distress signal. Her position was three quarters of a mile east-south-east of the harbour. There were light variable airs with a smooth sea and...