IN 1935 the Institution received a gift of £3,000 from Mrs. E. W. Montford, J.P., of Market Drayton, Shropshire, who is patron of the Stoke-on-Trent Ladies' Life-boat Guild, to provide a motor life-boat as a thank-offering for the...
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Mallaig, Inverness-shire.—At 11.0 in the morning of the 28th of December, 1951, the Post Office asked if the life- boat would take the Christmas mail to the islands of Eigg, Rhum and Canna as the regular steamer had not made its weekly call...
At 2.43 P.M., on the 19th June, the Coastguard reported to the Coxswain of the Life-boat Mark Lane that a vessel was aground on the Cross Sand, and in seven minutes the Life-boat was launched.
A south-easterly wind was...
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 11.3 on the morning of the llth of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that distress signals had been fired from a yacht between Worthing and Lancing. The life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis...
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 6.25 on the evening of the 9th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the hon- orary secretary that a small fishing boat needed help off Brownstown Head. At 6.30 the life-boat Annie Blanche Smith put out in...
COASTGUARD REPORT At 6.16 p.m. on ipth April, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen three miles east-south-east of Wick Bay. There was a moderate north-easterly breeze with a choppy sea, and it...
Young Geoffrey Ward (r) looks happy to be alive; he was rescued after slipping into the sea off rocks at Porthowan, Cornwall. His mother (c) looks even happier as she shows off some of the goods on sale at the coffee morning she organised... - View image in PDF
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At 3.58 p.m. on 12th August, 1969, the coastguard informed the staff coxswain that a yacht was in difficulties off Minster Boom. The lifeboat 44-001, on temporary duty at Sheerness, immediately slipped her moorings in a moderate south south...
(Above) Three cheers for Her Majesty as Britannia passes Joy and John Wade.. - View image in PDF
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