Three Skin Divers Rescued By Flamborough Life-Boat In November. - View image in PDF
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East Reading District Scout Council organised 'Operation Sealion', a sponsored paddle against the clock from Bristol to Reading, along the Kennet and Avon Canal. 120 Scouts, in relays, got their 12' aluminium boat along the 90... - View image in PDF
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Barra Island, Hebrides. At eleven o'clock on the night of the 30th of May, 1958, a local doctor requested the use of the life-boat to take a patient to hospital in South Uist. The patient, who had a haemorrhage, was given a blood...
Amble, Northumberland.—In the late afternoon of the 21st of July, 1948, the coastguard reported that the s.s. Wind- sor Queen, of London, which was off Coquet Island, had an injured man on board, and the motor life-boat Elizabeth Newton, on...
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 12.32 on the afternoon of the 28th of March, 1959, the honorary secretary was in- formed that a boat was being blown off shore one mile east of the life- boathouse. At 12.40 the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was...
JANUARY 12TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At about 12.25 P.M. the port war signal station reported that the Admiralty trawler Their Merit was aground on the North Beach just north of the harbour entrance, and a tug went out.<...
Keith Willacy, honorary secretary at Morecambe and helmsman during the rescue of the yachtsman, pictured at the time of his Silver medal award.. - View image in PDF
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Arklow. Co. Wicklow.—27th October.
Signals had been reported from the Arklow lightship, but help was not needed.—Rewards, £8 8s. 6d..
North Sunderland, Northumberland.—• The weather became very bad about mid-day on the 31st of January, 1948, while the motor fishing boat John Wesley was at the Fame Islands, and the motor life-boat W.R.A. was launched at 1.55 in the...
This boat was exhibited at the National Boat Show in London, in January 1957. - View image in PDF
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