DOCTOR TAKEN TO ISLAND Galway Bay. At 5.15 on the afternoon of the 6th January, 1962, the local medical officer asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would take him to Inishere Island to attend an urgent medical case. As there was no...
Ramsgate, Kent - At 12.5 a.m. on 16th August, 1968, the east pier watchman informed the coxswain that the yacht Ten Ten was aground on the harbour bar. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis slipped her moorings at 12.18 in a strong westerly...
Galway Bay - At n.o a.m. on 22nd August, 1967, the honorary secretary was informed that a 17-year-old boy visiting Inishere island had received a head injury and the doctor from Kilroann was needed to treat him. The life-boat Mabel Marion...
Amble, Northumberland - At 2.35 p.m. on i4th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that three fishing cobles were in difficulties in South bay. The life-boat Millie Walton slipped her moorings at 2.57 in a strong east...
PORT ISAAC, August 8, 1987: two anglers, cut off by the tide when they clambered to remote rocks north of Hole Beach are picked up by Port Isaac's 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat, earlier alerted by Hartland Coastguards. The alarm was...
JANUARY 15TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. During the afternoon the Naval Control informed the life-boat coxswain that a barge was burning flares close to the Grain Spit,. Half a gale was blowing from the N.E., with a rough sea. The motor...
Competition Crossword COXSWAIN ARTHUR LiDDON of Dover, who has compiled this crossword puzzle, is kindly giving as a prize for the first correct solution to be opened a colour enlargement of Dover's 44' Waveney lifeboat Faithful...
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We would like to express the grateful thanks of the Institution to the following firms of publishers who have generously inserted the leaflet of the Institution in their Christmas issues or have given us a free advertisement in their pages...
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New Brighton’s B class lifeboat Charles Dibdin and hovercraft Hurley Spirit were called out on Friday 25 March when a yacht crewed by experienced local sailors got stuck in mud. The yacht was leaning...
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EXPENDITURE.
LIFE-BOATS :—• New Life-boats for the following stations :—On account— Aberdeen, Eastbourne, Longhope, Montrose, New Brighton, Pie! (Barrow), Plymouth, Porthdinllaen, Ramsgate, Southwold, Stromness, Wexfacd,...
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