JUNE 7TH. - FENIT, CO. KERRY. At two in the morning a message was received that a motor fishing boat, with five men on board, was adrift in Tralee Bay. A fresh to strong south-west-to-west wind was blowing and the sea was choppy. At 2.20...
Montrose, Angus.—On the afternoon of the 22nd May three officers from the R.A.F. Training School were thrown into the sea by the swamping of their open boat when they were trying to cross the bar at the entrance to the River Southesk. The...
TWO SWIMMERS TAKEN OFF ROCK Sennen Cove, Cornwall. At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 28th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two young men were in difficulties after swimming from Lands End to a rock known as the...
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 10.26 on the night of the 25th of January, 1956, a message was received from the East Pier watchhouse that red flares had been seen off Broadstairs. At 10.30 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out. The sea was slight...
H.M. the Queen invested each of the five members of the crew of the Moelfre life-boat who took part in the rescue from the coaster Hindlea on the 27th October, 1959, with the silver medal for gallantry in saving life at sea at Bucking- ham...
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Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. — At 2.35 on the afternoon of the 22nd of June, 1957, at the time of the Penarth regatta, the life-boat Rachel and Mary Evans put out in a rough sea, with a fresh south-easterly breeze blowing and rain, to help...
PALLING.—On the 29th December, at 2 P.M., the British Workman Life-boat proceeded to the North Float light-ship, in reply to guns fired from that vessel.
On arrival it was found that the master and his wife, and the crew of...
CAISTER.—On the morning of the 6th January, the No. 2 Life-boat Beauchamp was launched in a very heavy sea and proceeded to the North Scroby Sand where the barque Wallace J. John, of Gluckstadt, had been totally...
On the 10th Feb- ruary, at daylight, a vessel was observed to have sunk on the Dutchman's Bank, and the crew to be clinging to the rigging. The Penmon life-boat was accordingly launched through a high surf, and proceeded .to their aid....
Oslo is an ideal setting for a gathering of life-boats. The city lies at the head of a long narrow fjord with moderately high land on either side. There is no slum area and the quays are only a few minutes walk from the centre of the town....
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