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Fiver II

Date: December 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 390

Walmer, Kent. At 4.14 on the after- noon of the 12th of July, 1959, the life- boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No.

32) was returning to her station from Dover after being on display at the Royal Show at Oxford, when the...

Rosita

Date: Autumn 1981

Volume: 48

Issue: 478

On rocks BELFAST COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Donaghadee lifeboat station at 2355 on Thursday May 21, 1981, that a motor cruiser with three people on board was aground near the entrance to Copelands Marina, south of the...

Trimley Maid

Date: Autumn 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 550

Two saved from yacht in onshore severe galeAservice by Shoreham's Tyne class lifeboat in June 1999 has earned her coxswain Peter Huxtable the Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on Vellum.

The service was carried out in...

Seafarer

Date: March 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 419

Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 12.56 p.m.

on 15th October, 1966, a longshore boat was seen firing red flares half a mile east of Lowestoft harbour entrance. The lifeboat Frederick Edward Crick was launched four minutes later in a...

Harvest Home

Date: November 1889

Volume: 14

Issue: 154

CABOTOAN.—At 5.30 A.M., on the 9th February, the Life-boat Lizzie and Charles Leigh Glare was launched during a fresh gale from the N.N.E. to N., squally weather and a heavy sea, and rescued the crew, consisting of four men from the schooner...

Cartaret

Date: December 1948

Volume: 32

Issue: 348

Torbay, Devon.—At 1.55 in the afternoon of the 6th of September, 1948, the Brixham coastguard tele- phoned that a motor cruiser was on fire three-quarters of a mile south- south-west of Berry Head, and the motor life-boat George Shee was...

Grey Falcon

Date: March 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 399

Teesmouth, Yorkshire. At 7.20 on the evening of the 29th November, 1961, the coxswain told the honorary secretary he had received a message that a boat was overdue from Gray's shipyard. She had last been seen at 3.45, and after further...

A Motor Boat

Date: September 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 389

Falmouth, Cornwall. On the after- noon of the 17th of May, 1959, the police at Falmouth informed the honorary secretary that a motor boat had lost her rudder and had struck a rock near Rosemullion Point. The life-boat Crawford and Constance...

Kiti

Date: September 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 405

TOW FOR YACHT WITH THREE ABOARD Dungeness, Kent. At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 16th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulty off the power station. The life-boat Mabel...

Purbeck

Date: Winter 1953

Volume: 33

Issue: 364

Dungeness, Kent.—At 5.30 on the afternoon of the 18th of December, 1952, an ex-life-boat coxswain tele- phoned that a vessel had gone ashore on Newcombe Sands. The tide was very low, and at 7.45, when it had risen sufficiently, the life-boat...