DECEPTIVE PARAVANE At 1.46 a.m. on I4th February, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a white flashing light had been seen half a mile east-south-east of Ventnor coastguard look-out. The life-boat crew assembled while...
TROUBLE ON THE BAR At 10.50 a.m. on 2yth January, 1965, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that one of the fishing fleet had encountered a heavy swell on the harbour bar when returning from the fishing grounds. As the weather was...
TOW FOR FRENCH TRAWLER WITH ENGINE TROUBLE St. Ives, Cornwall. At six o'clock on the evening of the 12th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the French trawler Etoile d'Arvor was disabled three miles west...
FIREMEN ON BOARD North Sunderland, Northumberland.
On the evening of i6th October, 1963, the motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that he had been told that two vessels had been in collision in Newton Bay and that one...
FOR a long search in bad weather on 22nd March, 1969, for the fishing boat Crusader additional monetary awards have been paid to the crew of the Ilfracombe, North Devon, life-boat.
At 2.20 a.m. it was learnt that a fishing...
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Lifeboat Services (continued from page 153) (and their dog) were in turn taken by breeches buoy to the lifeboat. John Powell and Alwyn Emmerson were then recovered in the same way.
The operation was completed by 1720 and...
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A NOTIFICATION appeared in the Gazette of the 13th March last, stating that the Queen had been pleased, by warrant under the royal sign-manual, to institute a new decoration, to be styled the Albert Medal, to be awarded in cases where it...
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Newbiggin, Northumberland.—On the 19th of February, 1951, several local fishing cobles were at sea in bad weather.
By 1.30 in the afternoon the weather had got worse. Three cobles were still out and it was thought...
Galway Bay - At 10 a.m. on 9th August, 1966, the doctor requested the services of the life-boat to transport a seriously ill patient to hospital on the mainland. At 11.10 the life-boat John R.
Webb, on temporary duty at the...
Exmouth: On Sunday June 12 Exmouth D class inflatable lifeboat, manned by Helmsman Clive Harris and Crew Member Christopher Douglas, launched to help a 14-year-old boy cut off by the tide on the rocks at Orcombe Point. Helmsman Harris first... - View image in PDF
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