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Police Sergeant D. H. Carter and Police Constable A. E. Farley, of Bourne- mouth, have each received £5 under the terms of the Ralph Glister Award in recognition of their service in the Bournemouth IRB on 19th May, 1968, to a burning...
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MONTROSE.—The fishing-boat Useful, of Kirkcaldy, while going out of the harbour on the afternoon of the 27th July in a moderate 8.E. wind and a rough sea, went ashore on the Annat Bank. The seas were breaking heavily on the sand and the...
The Swanage branch of the R.N.L.I. has been presented with a large coloured print of David Cobb's painting of the scene off Anvil Point on 22nd October, 1966, when a Norwegian freighter, with survivors from a yacht, met the Swanage...
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Arklow, Co. Wlcklow.—At 7.15 on the evening of the 27th of January, 1953, the life-boat motor mechanic reported that flares had been seen about three miles east-by-north of Arklow harbour.
At 7.47 the life-boat Inbhear A/or...
Torbay, Devon.—At 8.0 on the evening of the 13th of May, 1951, the Brixham coastguard telephoned that a motor cruiser seemed to have broken down about one mile south-west of Berry Head. Later she was seen to get under way, but at 8.42 the...
MAY 1ST. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
At about 1.20 P.M. the coastguard reported a small open pulling boat about two and a half miles from the look-out, and the No. 1 motor life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched at 1.30 P.M. A...
PERILOUS PROXIMITY Moelfre, Anglesey. At 8.45 p.m. on 7th July, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a converted ship's life-boat was reported to be drifting helplessly towards Dulas rocks in heavy seas before a...
Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 5.40 on the afternoon of the 27th of February, 1955, a flare was seen off Ireland's Eye. At six o'clock the life-boat R.P.L. was launched. The sea was choppy, a fresh southerly breeze was blowing, and the tide...
BROOKE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—The schooner Noordster, of Alblasserdam, bound from Maracaybo for Hamburg, stranded on a rock, known locally as the "Oil Rock," off Hanover Point, westward of Brooke, in foggy weather on the 24th March. The...