DECEMBER 5TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. At 11.5 at night the Brixham coastguard reported that a vessel, anchored about a quarter of a mile north of Brixham breakwater, was making distress signals. A northerly breeze was blowing, and the sea was rough...
To mark the First Year of operations of the new Penlee Arun'Class Lifeboat, the R.N.LB.
Mabel Alice and the Hong Kong Branch of the R.N.L.I,the Branch has produced a Limited-Edition Print as shown.
The...
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BIRTHDAY AND NEW YEAR HONOURS CB Rear-Admiral I. G. W. Robertson, DSC, RN, Admiral Commanding Reserves and an ex-officio member of the Committee of Management.
CBE Commander F. R. H. Swann, RNVR, Chairman of the Committee...
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ILBs SAVE 26 ON 7th August, 1971, when a local yacht club was holding a regatta, comprising 126 yachts, the wind was south south west force 4 to 5.
Then, at 12.35 p.m., the whole area was suddenly hit by a heavy squall and...
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Yacht stranded ON PASSAGE from the Isle of Whithorn to Kippford on Wednesday, August 24, the 23' yacht Albino mistook the entry into the Urr Estuary and went to the west of Almorness Point, driving into the shallow Orchardton Bay. On...
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At eight o'clock on the evening of the 5th of May, 1954, the life-boat bowman was on the New Brighton landing-stage when a sailing dinghy taking part in a race capsized. He arranged for the life-boat to be...
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 1.15 early on the morning of the 8th August, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that a yacht was dragging her anchors and was likely to strike the back of the old pier at any moment. This was con- firmed soon...