UNSEATED THEN TREATED At 7.30 p.m. on 9th January, 1964, a local doctor told the honorary secretary that a young woman who had fallen from her bicycle needed hospital treatment. As no other boat was available the life-boat Mabel Marion...
A large vessel with a flag of distress flying, was seen off this place during a gale of wind on the 9th January. On the Wicklow Life-boat : Robert Theophilus Garden proceeding to her, it was found she had lost her way, | and a...
OUT OF CONTROL Dover, Kent. At 9.1 p.m. on 3oth August, 1964, the police informed the honorary secretary that a small flare had been sighted to seawards. It was two hours before low water and very calm. At 9.16 the life-boat Southern Africa...
MAY 4TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At 7.55 in the evening the coastguard reported a small boat drifting two miles north of St. David’s Head. A strong northeasterly breeze was blowing and the sea was rough. The motor...
NOVEMBER 10TH. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 10.10 at night the coastguard reported the motor fishing vessel 1078, on Admiralty service, ashore on Spittal Point. A moderate south-west wind was blowing, with a moderate swell. The...
Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 3.5 p.m. on 8th February, 1970, it was learnt that a man was clinging to a capsized canoe and drifting off shore in a northerly direction.
The life-boat Edian Courtauld slipped her moorings at...
OWNER OVERBOARD Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 11.56 p.m. on 2gth July, 1965, two distress flares were reported to have been seen to the north-east and at three minutes after midnight on the 3oth the life-boat Louise Stephens was...
Chesterfield branch and Shoreline members met at Stevington House, Brookside, the home of Harry and Sybil Lin/ev, on July 18 for a wine and buffet supper in the garden. Nearly all the food was given by the committee who also prepared and... - View image in PDF
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Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 15th of August, 1959, the coastguard told the coxswain that a yacht had capsized near Hartle- pool breakwater but added that there were other boats near by. The life-boat crew were...
AGROUND WHILE RACING Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 4.14 in the afternoon of the 2nd of July, 1947, a sailing yacht was seen aground one mile south-south-east of the coastguard station, and the motor life-boat Michael Stephens left her moorings at 4...