Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. At 10.35 on the morning of the 3rd July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Swedish vessel was drifting ashore about two miles from Glas Island lighthouse and needed immediate help. A...
FISHING VESSEL AGROUND IN FOG Whitby, Yorkshire. At 7.15 on the evening of Friday the 5th of July, 1963, the honorary secretary was told that the m.f.v. Wakefield was ashore in dense fog a mile and a half north of...
Carl Palmby, awarded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum together with an inscribed wristwatch, holding a medallion presented to him by the Southern Gas Angling Society of which the man he rescued on February 27, 1981, is a... - View image in PDF
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Rhyl, Flintshire. On the morning of the 8th August, 1961, the honorary secretary saw that a yacht, which had altered course on approaching Rhyl harbour entrance, appeared to be blown down wind out of control.
There was a...
Girvan, Ayrshire.—About 7.15 on the evening of the llth of May, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say a message had been received from Ailsa Craig that the wife of one of the workers there was ill and required immediate attention. Owing to the...
On the 25th April the local fishing cobles, which had gone to their pots in the early morning, returned during the after- noon. A strong northerly sea was breaking across the bar, and as coming into harbour was highly dangerous, the...
Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 11.54 a.m. on i8th April, 1966, while the IRB was being exercised with the district inspector on board, the crew were informed that a dinghy with four youths on board was in difficulties 100 yards off shore from...
Plymouth, South Devon At 1.8 p.m. on loth November, 1966, news was received that a fishing boat was on fire near the wreck in Whitesand Bay and two or three people appeared to be in a dinghy.
The life-boat Lloyd's, on...
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — On the morning of the 18th of January, 1956, the weather worsened while the local fishing boats Betty, Hilda II, and Premier were still at sea, with three men in each boat. At 10.40 the life- boat E.C.J.R. was...
Dover, Kent. At 10.53 on the night of the 5th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was burning flares a mile and a half off South Foreland. The life-boat Southern Africa put out at eleven o'clock in...