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Anmara (2)
Long Search THE STERN TRAWLER Anmara and her crew of three were reported overdue from Scarborough on the evening of May 21, 1987 and a search was organised by Humber Coastguard, to begin at first light on the following day.
The Life-Boat Tradition
IN May last the Institution awarded a Lifeboatman Statuette to Miss Trudy Haylett, of Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk, for her work for the Institution in Yar- mouth and Caister. The name of Haylett is famous in the Life-boat history of the East...
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Sultan
In answer to a telegram stating that a barge was in distress seven miles E. of Wakering Haven, the No. 2 Life-boat Theodore and Herbert was launched at 3 P.M.
on the 17th December, during a strong...
Sorfareren
At about 6 A.M.
on llth November a message was received stating that a ship was dragging her anchors in the vicinity of Peterskerry, and required the Life-boat.
The crew of the Life-boat John A. Hay were...
From the Princess Elizabeth
IN 1947 the Princess Elizabeth sent the Institution £180, the balance of her wedding present from Kimberley.
At the beginning of 1948 her wedding dress was displayed in Edinburgh.
The Lord Provost...
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Albatross
Sennen Cove, Cornwall. — On the afternoon of the 10th February the ketch Albatros, of Brest, which was weatherbound in Whitesand Bay, hoisted a distress signal. She carried a crew of four and a dog, and was bound with a cargo of coal from...
The Lily
Humber, Yorkshire.—Just before noon on the 31st May a small fishing boat, The Lily, of Grimsby, drifted ashore inside Spurn Point. She was in no immediate danger. A moderate N.N.W.
breeze was blowing, with a slight...
A Dinghy (1)
Bembridge, Isle of Wight, inshore rescue boat on 19th August went to the aid of a dinghy in difficulties off Whitecliffe point.
The IRB was launched at 1.50 p.m. in a moderate south westerly wind with a rough...
Ole Knude
MARCH 13TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
About 9.20 in the morning the coastguard reported that a small Danish fishing boat was hove to near Whitby Rock Buoy, and the No. 1 motor life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 9.35. A...
Skylark, of Poole
APRIL 21ST. - POOLE AND BOURNEMOUTH, DORSET. During the afternoon the motor boat Skylark, of Poole, foundered in Bournemouth Bay when on a pleasure cruise with about seventy people on board.
The weather was fine, the sea...