St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—About 8.40 on the morning of the 8th of January.
1953, the motor vessel Braywick, of London, which had a crew of nine, wirelessed that she had broken down and needed a tug three miles north- east...
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 1.4 on the afternoon of the 17th of April, 1956, the Formby coastguard rang up to say that the tanker General San Martin, of Buenos Aires, had reported that several of her crew had been gassed.
Flamborough, Yorkshire. Towards noon on the morning of the 26th of September, 1959, the weather grew worse at a time when several local fishing cobles were still at sea. The sea was rough, there was a strong northerly wind, and it was high...
Seaham,"? Durham.—At 4.27 in the afternoon of the 15th of August, 1948, the coastguard reported a boy drifting seawards in a rubber dinghy off Hoiden, and the motor life-boat Elizabeth Witts Allen was launched at 4.55 in a light...
LITTLEHAVEN.—The Friend Life-boat proceeded to the assistance of two schooners, the John Davies, of Carnarvon, bound from Portmadoc for Bridgewater with a cargo of slates, and the Maggie Brocklebank, of Barrow, bound from Liverpool for...
Laurie Prynn, who had been a member of Salcombe lifeboat crew for some 16 years, regularly, from 1961 to 1978, gave about ten lectures a year to cadet members of the Island Cruising Club; in all he must have talked to some 7,000 youngsters...
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Blown offshore AT MERSEA ISLAND in the early evening of Sunday September 11, 1983, although the water was smooth off Cooper's Beach, a north-easterly near gale, force 7, was blowing off the shore and the tide was ebbing. At 1724 Thames...
APRIL 25TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
The rowing boat Meg, with no one on board, anchored in Llandudno Bay, was in danger of sinking during a strong southerly gale, with a rough sea. Three men put out in the small...
On the morning of the 21st June the Portpatrick coast- guard telephoned that a ship was ashore one mile north of Sanda Sound.
A strong S.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a heavy swell. The motor life- boat Lily Glen—Glasgow...
The guests of honour at the annual RNLI coffee morning in Mayfield, East Sussex on 2 December 1995 were Keith Stevens, son of the stationmaster at Mayfield (in the days when they had a railway!) and now a member of the crew of the Selsey... - View image in PDF
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