Deaths The following ex-coxswains have passed away in recent months: Mr. Alfred Woodford (Brooke, I.o.W.), Mr. Thomas Douglas (Holy Island), Mr. James Lethbridge (St. Mary's, Isle of Scilly), Mr. Eric Taylor (Whitby),Mr. William Parker...
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DEAL.—On the night of the 11th November, at 10.30 P.M., the Deal Life-boat, the Van Kook, was launched through a heavy surf to the aid of the barque Tonmaur, of Fowey, which was fast driving to the shore near that place. With the assistance...
Swanage, Dorset.—At 6 P.M. on the 21st August the coastguard telephoned that the police had reported that a man had fallen 150 feet over the cliff near Old Harry Rocks, and was badly injured. Owing to the difficulty of trying to haul him up...
Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 3.7 on the afternoon of the 28th of August, 1958, the police at Broadford reported that a small dinghy with one man on board was adrift off the south end of Palay Island, two miles north of...
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 2.40 on the afternoon of the llth of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that the police at Worthing had reported a small sailing dinghy in difficulties one mile off Goring. At 2.50 the...
Eight days afterwards, the same valu- able Life-boat proceeded to the assistance of the ship St. Johanner, of Dantzic, which had gone on the Middle Cross Sand, during a strong wind from the south.
They found the sea was...
DRIFTING LIFE-BOAT St. Ives, Cornwall. At 10.35 a-m- °n ist February, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat had been seen about 400 yards off Gur- nards Head. There was a strong breeze from the...
Safely ashore - two. Three weeks after the St Peter Port incident the 60ft fishing vessel Avalon II was in collision with a large tanker on 28 January, sinking while the Torbay lifeboat was on her way to the scene.
Her...
At 2 p.m. on 5th August, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that four youths in a hired rowing dinghy were missing. At 2.37 the life-boat Edian Courtauld left her moorings in a fresh west north westerly breeze and a rough...
In August the Institution opened a new station on the west coast of Ireland at Killybegs, in Donegal Bay, and stationed there one of its most powerful motor life-boats, a 5i-feet Barnett cabin boat with two 60 h.p. engines. She is the...
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