Kinghorn, Fife. At approximately 8 p.m. on igth August, 1965, a yacht was seen to capsize half a mile south-west of the station. At 8.2 the IRB launched in a gentle westerly breeze and corresponding sea. She came up with the yacht and took...
A 33FT BREDE class lifeboat, 33-02, is now at Oban undergoing station evaluation trials.
The Brede is a new type of lifeboat based on a commercial GRP hull. As a result of initial development work her wheelhouse has been...
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Port Askaig, Isle of Islay.—10th January.
A trawler had been wrecked off Ardbeg and had foundered in fifteen minutes. Four of her crew were lost, but nine scrambled on to rocks, from which eight were rescued by a steamer...
NOVEMBER 5TH. - BALTIMORE, CO.
CORK. A trawler had struck a rock and had sunk off Cape Clear Island, but the five survivors of the crew of eleven were rescued by people on the island. - Rewards, £9...
MAY 7TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
A British aeroplane had come down in the sea, but her crew of three were rescued by motor launches and a seaplane. - Rewards, £2 10s..
DECEMBER 8TH. - STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES.
A trawler had been reported ashore near Sheshader, but of her crew of thirteen, two got to land in the trawler’s boat and the remainder were saved by a boat from the shore. - Rewards,...
Torbay, Devon. At six o'clock on the evening of the 5th August, 1961, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report that a 12-feet boat, which had been hired earlier in the day, had not returned. Further enquiries were made...
MR. Duncan Darroch, a regular and most generous supporter of the Institu- tion in Mount Cook, New Zealand, who has a life-boat collecting box there which brings the Institution appreciable sums of money, recently sold one of his pictures to...
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Runswick, Yorkshire.—On the morn- ing of the 31st of July, 1949, the life- boat mechanic, with a telescope, was watching a yacht manoeuvring and saw a small boat, two miles east of Runswick Bay, flying a distress signal. It was then 11.45,...
27th February. A trawler stranded, but her crew were landed by the life- saving apparatus company.—Rewards, £13 19s. 6d..