Ilfracombe, Devon. — At 5.5 on the morning of the 23rd of July, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht one mile east of Widmouth Head was drifting towards Hangman Point and that her crew had waved a hurricane lamp. She was near the...
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 6.46 on the evening of the 8th of October, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that a boat had reported that she was on the Red Sands and needed help. At 6.55 the life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3 was...
Douglas, Isle of Man.—At 12.40 in the early morning of the 4th of February, 1950, the coastguard reported that dis- tress flares were being burned off Douglas Bay. At one o'clock the life- boat Millie Walton was launched in a heavy sea...
flfracombe, Devon.—At 12.45 in the afternoon, on the 13th of May, 1951,the coastguard telephoned that Bull Point lighthouse reported a motor yacht burning a red flare off Brandy Cove. At 1.0 the life-boat Richard Silver Oliver was...
Runswick, Yorkshire. At 12.18 p.m.
on 3rd October, 1965, a sailing dinghy was seen to capsize off Kettleness Point and it was thought there might be children on board. There was a light south-south-westerly breeze with a...
IN nine of the thirteen foreign countries ! which have National Life-boat Services, the Service is voluntarily maintained ! like our own, though, in some cases, with I grants-in-aid from the State. In the remaining five it is...
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Letters To add your opinion, write to The Editor at RNLI Headquarters or email [email protected] Dear Editor As a landlocked landlubber, I sometimes wondered why I joined the RNLI as a Shoreline Member many years ago. I was so...
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• It is well for a country that she should number among her sons and daughters adventurous and courageous individualists—where, for instance, would the lifeboat service be without them? Such a man was Augustine Courtauld whose biography. The...
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FOR THE first time, we are introducing two items which we hope will be more than souvenirs and fall into the category of suitable gifts. For men, there is an attractive set of hand-made cuff-links with the R.N.L.I. motif in gilt and enamel...
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BRANCASTER, NORFOLK.—On the 23rd October, at about 9 A.M., the barque Lydia, of Grrimstad, bound from Arendal to Cardiff with pit props, stranded on Burnham Plats. The Lily Bird Life-boat proceeded to her, and found that she had 8 feet of...