Whitstable, Kent. At approximately 2.15 p.m. on 8th September, 1965, the honorary secretary was told that a small dinghy with one person on board was in difficulties a half a mile off shore. At 2.20 the IRB launched in a strong southwesterly...
ON April 21st, in preparation for Life-boat Day meeting of in Greater London, Honorary Secretariesand other Organizers was held at the house of Lady Burnham, who not only entertained them to tea,but presided over the meeting, which numbered...
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Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—At 3.25 P.M. on the 19th September the Castletown coastguard telephoned that Langness lighthouse-keepers had reported a rowing boat with three people on board being carried out to sea by the strong current off...
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—About noon on the 14th October the schooner Eulala, of Dumfries, was seen to exhibit signals of distress while riding heavily in the bay. She had parted one anchor, and was drifting rapidly towards the rocks.The...
On the 20th March, at about 5.30 A.M., the No. 2 Life-boat Roman Governor of Oaer Hun, was launched to the assistance of the brig Eleonore, of Tonsberg, Norway, which was showing signals of distress.
She went ashore about a...
ANCHOR WAS DRAGGING Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 4.16 p.m. on 23rd August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small longshore boat was in difficulties in the moderate seas and fresh south-westerly breeze...
Margate, Kent. At 2.22 on the after- noon of the 9th October, 1961, thecoastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that two men in a rowing boat were being blown out to sea a mile and a half off Epple Bay and were waving a towel attached to...
Children cut off by tide SWoth Scotland South Division Two children aged 12 and 5 years who had been cut off by the tide on a sandbank off Mawbray were rescued on 7 July 1991 by the prompt response of the Silloth lifeboat and John Boyle, a...
MONTROSE.—At about half-past six o'clock on the 27th January all the fishing-boats put out to sea in a moderate N.N.E. breeze. At about eight o'clock the wind became very strong and squally, with snow showers and a very heavy eea,...
Appledore, Devon. — At 4.20 on the afternoon of the 17th of September, 1955, the Westward Ho coastguard telephoned that a woman visitor to Lundy Island had fallen over a cliff and broken a leg. He asked if the life-boat would take her to the...