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BY LIFE-BOAT AND AEROPLANE TO HOSPITAL Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 11.5 in the morning of the 12th of March, 1947, the Medical Officer of Health telephoned that a girl, dangerously ill with meningi- tis in Lerwick Hospital must be...
Linda
Donaghadee, Co. Down. At noon on the 13th of July, 1958, the Orlock coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat had capsized off Carrickfergus in Belfast Lough. At12.20 the life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson, on temporary duty at...
A Converted Ship's Boat and a Fishing Boat
New Brighton, Cheshire. At noon on the 31st of August, 1958, the motor mechanic's wife told the coxswain that a message had been received that a motor launch was in difficulties north of Seacombe stage. At 12.30 the life- boat Norman B....
Ellen
Walmer, Kent. At 3.24 on the after- noon of the 14th of December, 1959, the honorary secretary heard a wireless message from the motor vessel Beeding to the coastguard at Deal stating that a fishing boat had broken down close in- shore under...
Sailing Dinghies
Walmer, Kent. At 4.40 on the after- noon of the 6th August, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that some of the sailing dinghies taking part in a race from Deal to Ramsgate were missing. There was a fresh south-westerly...
Tic Tac and Fishing Boats Sea Breeze, Kingfisher and Mary Arden
New Quay, Cardiganshire - At 9.30 a.m. on ist October, 1966, four local fishing boats were still at sea between New Quay and Aberystwyth, when a storm was reported. The life-boat St.
Albans was launched at 9.42 in a gale...
The S.S. Carmarthen Coast
Nov. 9TH. - SEAHAM, AND SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. At 7.50 A.M. a message was received at Seaham from the coastguard that the S.S. Carmarthen Coast, of Liverpool bound, laden, from Kirkcaldy to London had struck a mine several miles to the east...
The Examination Vessel Thistle
MAY 8TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 8.40 in the morning the naval base telephoned, through the coastguard, that a heavy explosion had occurred where the examination vessel Thistle had last been seen, and the motor life-boat...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BALCARY, KIRKCUDBRIGHT. — The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat establishment at Balcary Point, in Auchencairn Bay, on the coast of Kirkcudbright, which is considered to be an excellent position whence a Life- boat can...
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