DRIFTING BROADSIDE Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 1.36 p.m. on gth July, 1964, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that a yacht two miles south-west by south of the coastguard look-out was dismasted. There was a fresh westerly breeze with...
TOW ROPE WAS CUT At 2.15 p.m. on nth September, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor cabin cruiser was aground on the Black Middens rocks half a mile from the life-boathouse.
There was a...
JUNE 25TH. - CAISTER, NORFOLK. At twelve noon the coastguard telephoned that an airman was in the sea 500 yards S.E. of Waxham. He was one of the crew of an American Fortress aeroplane. All the crew had baled out but the others had come down...
On July 18, 1881, after Largs new boathouse, funded by a legacy from Miss Janet Brunion, had been opened by Mrs D. Jackson, the station's new Atlantic 21 lifeboat, the gift of the Independent Order of Foresters, was handed over by Mr T.... - View image in PDF
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DECEMBER 12TH. - WESTON - SUPER - MARE, SOMERSET. An aeroplane was reported to have come down in the sea, but nothing could be found, and later it was learned that it had crashed on the shore.- Rewards, £12 1s. 6d..
MARCH 27TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
A vessel had been reported on fire, but nothing could be found, and it was learned later there had been a small moorland fire on the Sutherland coast across the Moray Firth.- Rewards, £...
NOVEMBER 6TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE.
A Lysander aeroplane had crashed into a rough sea one mile east of Porth Gain, but the life-boat found nothing and it was learned later that one airman had got ashore in his...
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. — At 12.35 in the early morning, on the llthof January, 1951, the coastguard re- ported that the motor vessel Cornel, of Cardiff, about five miles north-east of Port Nevin, had a heavy list and needed help....
The ladies' life-boat guild of the Isles of Scilly organised a walk during the national sponsored walk period and it proved a great success, raising about £350. Two ways which brought in the most money were: Mrs. Leatherbarrow, wife... - View image in PDF
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