VERY HEAVY SEA North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At 8.30 a.m. on i2th September, 1964, the life-boat's mechanic informed the honorary secretary that five small fishing boats were out and that a very heavy sea was...
INDIAN SEAMAN At 12.45 a-m- on ist November, 1964, the honorary secretary heard that an Indian seaman on board a vessel anchored near the Bar lightvessel was in urgent need of medical treatment. There was a smooth sea with very little wind...
Coxswain Joseph McLoughlin, of Howth, who was awarded the bronze medal of the Institution for the rescue of the crew of three of the motor fishing vessel Roscairbre of Dublin on i4th July, 1964, died in hospital hi Dublin on 30th June, 1965,...
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RUBBER DINGHY Eastbourne, Sussex. At 4.50 p.m.
on 7th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a rubber dinghy was in difficulties about a mile south of the life-boat station. The life-boat Beryl...
Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 21st August, 1961, the coxswain received a message from Ballycotton lighthouse that a motor fishing vessel had broken down and was drifting about a mile and a half east-by- north of the...
MATERNITY NEEDS At 11 p.m. on 28th December, 1963, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that a maternity patient needed to be taken to hospital on the mainland.
There was a strong south-easterly breeze with a...
The light motor life-boat of the Liverpool type, 35 feet 6 inches by 10 feet 3 inches.. - View image in PDF
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(Right) A Royal Navy helicopter from Portland exercises with the Atlantic 21. The D class inflatable lifeboat stands by.. - View image in PDF
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Mr. John D. Russell, the senior partner of Binder, Hamlyn & Co. (Chartered Accountants), who died in January, joined the Committee of Management of the Royal National Life-boat Institution in 1954, and was elected a vice president in...
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Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 5.50 p.m. on 9th August, 1966, distress flares were seen coming from the auxiliary yacht Fargo off the West Holm buoy. At 6.3 the life-boat Frederick Edward Crick proceeded in a westerly gale and a rough sea. The tide...