Padstow, Cornwall - At 5.51 p.m. on 22nd July, 1967, a small yacht was reported in difficulties on the north side of Harlyn bay. The life-boat Joseph Hiram Chadwick slipped her moorings at 6.14 in a moderate north easterly breeze and a...
Mass Capsize AT 3.11 p.m. on May 28 it was learnt that dinghies from the Shoreham, Sussex, yacht club were capsizing and theyacht club rescue craft did not seem able to cope with them, in particular one dinghy 100 yards off the harbour. The...
DRIFTING VESSEL Montrose, Angus. At 8.55 p.m. on 29th May, 1964, a Ferry den resident informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Petunia had drifted on to the Annat bank. Five minutes later the fishing vessel floated off...
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THE Royal Humane Society has awarded its bronze medal and certificate to Robert John Gammon, the mechanic of the life-boat at The Mumbles, for attempting to rescue a "frogman" •who was working under water on repairs to the pier....
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by Maggie Murray/Format The five medallists arrive for a photocall at Tower Pier, on the Thames, before the Presentation of Awards at the Royal Festival Hall on 14 May 1991.. - View image in PDF
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The Span- ish steamer Arantzazu, of Bilbao, stranded six miles south of Haile Buoy on the 14th January, while bound laden from Bilbao to Imming- ham. She carried a crew of twenty- nine. She wirelessed for help and the motor life-boat City of...
Facts and figures Provisional statistics as at 15 June 1989, show that so far this year: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 871 times (an average of more than 5 launches a day) More than 332 lives were saved (an average of 2 people...
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Facts and figures Provisional statistics as at 15 February 1989, show that during 1988: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 4,197 times (an average of more than 11 launches a day) More than 1,338 lives were saved (an average of 3.7 people...
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The trawler Striver, of Great Yarmouth, was being towed into the harbour by a steam-tug at about 8.45 on the morning of the 25th October, during a N.E. to N.N.E. wind, squally weather, and a heavy sea. When crossing the bar, the tug came...