Eastbourne, Sussex. At 5.5. on the afternoon of the llth of December, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two red rockets had been reported in Norman's Bay, and that a boat was burning red flares about four miles...
The following letter has been received from a lady who for over fourteen years has been a collector for one of the Institution's branches:—• "I wish to assure you that all my efforts on behalf of your great caus have been well...
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(Continued from page 224) approved by the medical and survival committee, under the chairmanship of Surgeon Rear Admiral Ian Colley.
The search and rescue and executive committees of the RNLI each gave the suit their...
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Clacton - on - Sea, Essex.—At 11.6 in the morning of the 25th of Septem- ber, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was reported ashore on the Barrow Sands, flying a distress signal, and at 11.30 the life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was...
Engine broken down ON TUESDAY, MAY 11, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Tenby lifeboat station at 1337 that a motor yacht, Jondee of Saundersfoot, was in trouble 300-400 yards off Lydstep Head, some five miles west of the...
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At 7.30 A.M. on the 8th December, during a dense fog, the watchman reported that a vessel was ashore on the beach, one mile to the eastward of the watch-house. The crew of the Life-boat were at once assembled and proceeded in the...