Clovelly, Devon - At 7 a.m. on 2nd October, 1969, the life-boat Grace Paterson Ritchie, on temporary dutyat the station, intercepted a distress signal from the motor yacht Britannia reporting that she was in difficulties with a broken rudder...
Scarborough, Yorkshire - At 8.10 p.m.
on 12th October, 1966, the Scarborough lighthouse keeper informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht was in a dangerous position off the South bay. The life-boat J. G. Graves of...
At 6.10 p.m. on 2gth October, 1966, red flares were reported two miles north east of Tankerton. There was a moderate wind from the north east with a slight seaand rain squalls. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. n) launched at 6...
Southend-on-Sca, Essex - At 10.50 a.m. on I2th February, 1967, attention was drawn to a small fishing boat, with an angling party on board, reported to be in distress offCanvey Point. The life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott, on temporary...
Penlee, Cornwall - At 6 p.m. on ist August, 1967, the coxswain was informed by the honorary secretary that two seriously injured men aboard the tanker Tahchee of Panama required hospital treatment. A rendezvous was arranged for 8 o'clock...
At 7.30 p.m. on igth August, 1967, the coxswain was informed that the fishing boat Splaugh Queen was flying distress signals half a mile south of Splaugh buoy.
The motor vessel Duke of Rothsay also reported seeing the...
At 3.30 p.m. on 28th August, 1967, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two teenagers who had set out soon after breakfast in a rubber dinghy had not returned.
In view of the dense fog and the number of boats...
Penlee, Cornwall. At 10 a.m. on nth November, 1965, the St. Just coastguard told the coxswain that a ship had reported seeing mattresses in the sea five miles south-east of Tater Du lighthouse. The mattresses were possibly from the missing...
Holyhead, Anglesey - At 4.55 p.m.
on 6th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Dutch trawler had struck the Flattens, and was aground, but the local pilot boat and a boat from a Holyhead boatyard...
North Sunderland lifeboat crew look on while Jane Sutherland, grand-daughter of Lady Sutherland, president of the ladies' guild, presents a salmon to Bill Steel of Tyne Tees Television who opened the annual lifeboat fete at Seahouses.... - View image in PDF
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