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At 9.35 p.m. on 3rd September, 1967, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small sloop anchored near Penman point was being buffeted by gale force winds and that anxiety was felt for her safety in the fading light. The life-boat...
A collective letter of thanks, signed by the Secretary of the Royal National Life-beat Institution, Mr. Stirling Whorlow, O.B.E., has been sent to Coxswain John Sugrue and the crew of the Valentia (Co. Kerry) life-boat for their efforts on...
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EVINRUDE THE CHOICE OE PROFESSIONALS On the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Inshore Rescue Boats Evinrude motors haveto work hard.
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EVINRUDE THE CHOICE OF PROFESSIONALS On the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Inshore Rescue Boats Evinrude motors haveto work hard.
Have to be ready for action all the time, reliable, powerful. And they always are. Every...
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Scarborough, Yorkshire. As the weather grew worse on the morning of the 5th of December, 1958, some anxiety was felt for the local fishing coble Rosemary, which was at sea, and at 10.30 it was decided to launch the life-boat/. G....
FREED FROM SANDS At 7.40 p.m. on 25th April, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser ashore on the Hook Sands had fired a red rocket. There was a moderate south-easterly breeze with a choppy sea and a flooding...
ANXIETY ABOUT TWO Selsey, Sussex. At 8 p.m. on 28th July, 1964, a member of the life-boat crew told the honorary secretary that concern was felt for the safety of two young men in a sailing dinghy about two miles east of Selsey Bill. They...
TWO MEN IN WATER Salcombe, Devon. At 2.45 a.m. on loth August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a fishing boat had capsized off Bigbury and that two men were in the water. There was a smooth sea with a light...