LOBSTER BOAT AGROUND ON SHEEP ROCK Campbeltown, Argyllshire. At 10.26 on the morning of Wednesday the 28th of August, 1963, the Southend coastguard informed the assistant honorary secretary that the Portpatrick coastguard had reported the...
Aberystwyth: On Saturday August 20, a fine, warm day after a night of violent thunder storms, Aberystwyth's new Mk IV Zodiac D class inflatable, twin-engined lifeboat was handed over and a service of dedication was held for the... - View image in PDF
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Fishing vessel towed to safety A fishing boat, grounded on rocks and taking in water, was towed safety amid thick fog on 12 May thanks to the crew of Lerwick's relief lifeboat Fraser Flyer.
The Severn class lifeboat...
JANUARY 28TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. During a south-westerly gale with a very rough sea H.M.S. Rhyl, a minesweeper, parted her tow from a tug off Felixstowe.
She anchored, but the anchors dragged and she was drifting...
FISHING VESSEL'S CREW TAKEN OFF ROCKS Lerwick, Shetlands. At 3.52 on the afternoon of the llth September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Serene had sent a radio message that another...
Padstow, Cornwall.—At 12.45 on the afternoon of the 16th of September, 1955, the Trevose Head coastguard rang up to say that a message had been received from St. Eval that an R.A.F. airborne life-boat was in diffi- culties off Bude. An...
Walter Fairbairn, of Dunbar and Skateraw, and John Swanson, of Longhope.
THE Institution has lost, in one week, two very distinguished Scottish coxswains. Ex-Coxswain Walter Fair- bairn, of Dunbar and Skateraw,...
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COXSWAIN THOMAS EDWIN DOUGLAS is seen above. He has been coxswain of the Holy Island life-boat since ist October, 1961, and previously served from January, 1945, as second coxswain. The Holy Island life-boat has been launched on service 39... - View image in PDF
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Margate, Kent.—At about 9.50 A.M.
on the 25th April the coastguard telephoned that a motor yacht was introuble and was drifting ashore. She was the San Toy, of London, bound there from Ramsgate, with a man and a boy on...
Ballyglass fills the gap in Ireland's cover The Institution will have an entirely new lifeboat station in operation on the northwest coast of the Republic of Ireland this autumn.
The station, at Ballyglass Co. Mayo will...
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