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LIFEBOAT GROUNDS TWICE ON GALE-LASHED SANDBANK Four rescued in gale from stranded yacht The Director of the RNLI, Lt Cdr Brian Miles, has written to the honorary secretary of Lytham St Annes lifeboat station, Frank Kilroy, to congratulate...
Category: Services
A Penny a Week from 130 Firms
Two years ago the Lerwick Branch wrote to over 130 firms in the Shet- iands asking if their staffs and work- people would give a penny a week to the Life-boat Service. All but one firm agreed. The contributions for the first year amounted...
Category: Donations
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Hartlepool, Durham.—At 3.30 on the afternoon of the 27th of September, 1954, a police officer rang up to say that he had seen someone waving in a fishing boat one mile north of Heugh Light.
The boat appeared to have broken...
Yacht Sea Belle
At 5.50 A.M., on the 12th April, a schooner -was seen through the haze stranded on the Gunfleefc Sands, and almost at the same time the Coastguard received a telephone message from the Light-house reporting a vessel ashore. The Life-boat...
Life-Boat Christmas Card and Calendar
THE life-boat Christmas card and calendar, with a reproduction in colour of the service of the Ballycotton motor life-boat to the Daunt Rock lightship, of which particulars were given in the last issue of The Life-boat, can still be obtained...
Category: Advertisement
Morn
Margate, Kent.—At about noon on the 10th June, 1939, a yacht was seen by a life-boatman ashore on the Margate Sands. A light S.E. breeze was blowing, the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) was...
A Naval Cutter
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 6.53 on the evening of the 4th of July, 1954, the St. Anthony coastguard telephoned that a naval cutter appeared to be in difficulties six miles south-east of St.
Anthony light-house. At 7.17 the life...
Dorothy Margaret
ESCORT FOR FISHING VESSEL IN GALE Newhaven, Sussex. At 7.32 on the evening of the 23rd January, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Dorothy Margaret had been in difficulties with engine trouble and...
Queen Catherine
Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 7.54 on the evening of the 4th of August, 1956, theShoreham coastguard reported that the Royal Sovereign lightvessel had informed him that a small yacht along- side her was in difficulty and needed a tow to Newhaven....
Cairnbin
WATER POURED IN At 10.55 P-m- on 22nd August, 1964, the coastguard informed the coxswain that flares had been seen east-north-east of North Cockle buoy. There was a moderate sea with a gentle south-southwesterly breeze and the tide was at...