Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 53 Number 530 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES CBE RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Editorial Assistant: MARY GYOPARI Advertisement Manager: DAVID BRANN...
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On the 6th September the fishing boat Sarah Ann, of Hoylake, returning from the fishing grounds, ran aground on the West Hoyle Bank. As the weather was threatening, it was decided to take out the Life-boat Admiral Briggs, and at 7.35 P.M....
Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—At 8.15 in the morning of the 26th of October, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a message had been received from the tug Superman asking for the life-boat to take four men off a sinking hulk three miles south of...
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 7.20 on the morning of the 29th of July, 1956, the St. Anthony coastguard rang up to say that a woman had reported that a black-painted yacht was dragging her anchor off Helford River. The life- boat Crawford and...
Dover, Kent. At 6.59 on the morning of the 6th of January, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was adrift ten miles south-west of Dover. When the life- boat Southern Africa put out at 7.30 there was a...
Howth, Co. Dublin. At 1.6 on the afternoon of the 14th August, 1961, the honorary secretary learnt that a dinghy had capsized a mile and a half south- east of Donabate. At 1.17 the life- boat R.P.L. slipped her moorings at high water....
The relief Arun class Duke of Atholl was at Howth when Vision ran aground. The last of the Arun class to be built she is pictured here on an earlier occasion - with much more sea room and in far better conditions.. - View image in PDF
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