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An Aeroplane (153)
OCTOBER 4TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
A German aeroplane, a Junkers 88, had been shot down by British fighter aeroplanes east of Southwold, but only oil patches were found. A naval motor vessel which helped in the search was...
A Rowing Boat (2)
JULY 25TH. - MARGATE, KENT. A small rowing boat was drifting out with a boy in it, but before the life-boat arrived it was found by a motor boat. The boy was exhausted and, after he had been given water and chocolate from the life-boat, the...
An Aeroplane
Selsey, Sussex.—10th August. An aeroplane had crashed in the sea and the life-boat, in charge of Captain J. N.
Tait, D.S.C., R.N., honorary secretary, put out with a scratch crew, the Tegular crew being at sea. A motor boat...
Ramona
NEAR PORTLAND BILL Weymouth, Dorset. At 8.30 p.m. on 9th November, 1964, the coxswain was told by a shipping agency that the Dutch motor vessel Ramona was drifting in choppy seas and a moderate south-easterly wind five miles south of...
Maracove
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At i .45 a.m. on 27th December, 1965, the Marine Rescue Co-ordination Centre, Haulbowline, notified the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Maracove of New York, on passage to Rotterdam, had requested that the...
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Photograph by courtesy of the Evening Argus, Brighton On the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Inshore Rescue Boats Evinrude motors have to work hard Have to be ready for action all the time, reliable, powerful. And they always are. Every...
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Fishing Vessels (2)
THREE FISHING VESSELS ESCORTED IN GALE Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 10.50 on the morning of the 20th December, 1962, as the weather was rapidly deteriorating, the honorary secretary asked the harbour master how many fishing boats were still at...
Dear reader
Do you know the three big targets we’re working towards as a lifesaving charity? As our Chairman Charles Hunter-Pease explained at our AGM in May, we aim to bring our entire all-weather lifeboat fleet up to a speed of 25 knots by 2019,...
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A Canoe
Valiant attempt HM COASTGUARD asked the deputy launching authority of Bangor ILB station to stand by at 1135 on Sunday May 20; a canoist had capsized half a mile north of the harbour and another canoist was trying to bring him in. The DLA...
Inga
Stornoway, Hebrides. At 11.15 on the night of the 4th of January, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Inga of Helsingborg, Sweden, was anchored in Branahuie Bay three miles from Stornoway and had a very...