JANUARY MEETING ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At about 5 in the afternoon of the 21st June, 1940, the coastguard reported a ship’s boat drifting some five miles north of Ilfracombe. A light N.N.W. wind was blowing, with a slight sea.
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Famous five In May 1995 I was rescued by Swanage lifeboat, with a helicopter and an inshore Atlantic standing by, from a yacht aground on the Kimmeridge ledge off the coast of Dorset. The tide was falling and the yacht in danger of breaking...
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Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—-At 10.20 P.M. on the 1st June the coastguard saw a flare at sea about four miles out. The life-boat was off service for survey and a motor boat manned by two men put out and searched. A fresh S.W. wind was blowing,...
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LIFE-BOAT AND TUG IN HARD TOW THE Falmouth, Cornwall, life-boat on 8th August, 1972, following the sighting of a redflare at about 3.40 a.m., saved a schooner and 10 people.
The wind was south westerly, force 6-7, with a...
SEPTEMBER 1982 Extracts from the log of Acting Motor Mechanic ALEC MOORE of the delivery trip of the 46ft 9in Watson lifeboat Herbert Leigh at the end of her time as a station boat; she is now in the relief fleet. For the voyage the other...
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GENTLY DOES IT A crash between a personal watercraft and a powerboat left a 16-year-old boy in agony, needing urgent but careful attention Aberdovey lifeboat crew were just back from a call out to a kitesurfer when they were asked by radio...
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Jan. 8.—Voted the thanks of the Insti- tution, inscribed on vellum and framed, together with the sum of 21. each, to JAMES HEARNE and three other boatmen for gallantly putting off in a boat and rescuing the crew of four persons from the...
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THE General Strike started at midnight on Monday, 3rd May, and all the regular transport by rail and road ceased at once. On Wednesday, 12th May, shortly after midday, the strike was called off, but it was not until the Saturday that normal...
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West Division Marooned on dolphin THE DLA of Morecambe lifeboat station was informed by Liverpool Coastguard at 1625 on Sunday October 17, 1982, that a board sailor was in difficulties in Half Moon Bay, near Heysham. Maroons were fired at...
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To Blake Life-boat Maintenance Fnnd:— Balance from 1891 7 15 9 Dividends received in 1892 49 10 - 57 5 9 Amount expended thereout 13 10 5 43 15 4 „ Blake Life-boat Reward...
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