Torbay, Devon - At 8.45 p.m. on June, 1967, the coastguard and the honorary secretary conferred with regard to an unidentified 'Mayday' call which had been received. It was decided not tolaunch the life-boat until further information...
Torbay, Devon.—At 7.42 P.M. on the 1st June, 1938, the Babbacombe Corinthian Sailing Club informed the Berry Head coastguard that a vessel was flying a distress signal a mile and a half east of Oddicombe, and the coastguard informed the life...
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Escort duty ON TUESDAY, January 28, 1975, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Bridlington lifeboat at 1130 that a number of fishing cobles were still at sea and the weather was deteriorating.At 1235, high water, William Henry...
Air Vice Marshal John Tetley, chairman of the RNLI's search and rescue committee, together with other members of the committee drew the winning tickets of the 73rd lifeboat lottery at Poole on 30 April 1996.
Supervising...
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Pupils at Fowey Community School put their backs to the wheels and trundled a D class inflatable lifeboat 74 times round their school bus park. Photo Jonathan Barker. - View image in PDF
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Ireland Division Fishing boat sinks ROSSLARE HARBOUR PORT AUTHORITY informed the deputy launching authority at 2220 on Saturday, June 19, that MFV Hopeful with two men on board was taking water and sinking rapidly in a position about two...
Lieut.-Col. Sir John Collie, C.M.G., M.D., J.P., the distinguished physician and the authority on malingering, died on 3rd April at the age of seventy-five.
He had been a member of the committee of management since April,...
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Redcar, and Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—At about 9.45 A.M. on the 2nd January, 1939, the coastguard at Marske telephoned that a motor fishing vessel was in distress four miles north-east of Huntcliffe. She was the Success, of Whitby, with a crew...
Photograph by courtesy of the Evening Argus, Brighton EIUOVS ITS WORK On the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Inshore Rescue Boats Evinrude motors have to work hard.
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