FEBRUARY 25TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. Flares had been seen, but nothing could he found. - Rewards, £13 14s. 6d..
Walmer, Kent. At 4 p.m. on 2oth July, 1965, the honorary secretary saw a catamaran capsize one mile offshore from the life-boathouse. At 4.10 p.m. the IRB launched in a southerly breeze and corresponding sea. The catamaran, whose crew of two...
APRIL 22ND. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At 3.45 in the afternoon the coastguard reported two small boats drifting three miles south-west of the South Stack. The motor life-boat A.E.D. was launched at 4.10 in a light...
NOVEMBER 7TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
In the early afternoon a strong north-westerly wind was blowing, with a heavy sea. The motor fishing coble Jean and Barbara was at sea, and at two o’clock the motor life-boat The Cuttle was...
Troon, Ayrshire. At 5.38 on the evening of the 13th of July, 1958, the Kildonan coastguard informed the hon- orary secretary that a motor boat was in difficulties half a mile off Corrie Point. At six o'clock the life-boat James and...
TWO SURVIVORS FROM CATAMARAN LANDED Dungeness, Kent. At 2.40 on the afternoon of the 2nd July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a catamaran had capsized and that two people were in the water off Greatstone. The...
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 7.20 in the evening of the 20th of June, 1948, the coastguard reported a small vessel off Seaford Head flying distress signals, and the motor life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was launched in a south- westerly breeze...
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 9.25 in the evening of the 21st of July, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a small rowing boat, with three Royal Air Force cadets on board, was in difficulties about half a mile to the eastward of Salt Island Point,...
Dunbar, Haddingtonshire.—At 4.30 in the afternoon of the 20th of September, 1948, the coastguard reported that the motor fishing boat Bluebell, of Port Seton, with a crew of seven, had broken down nine miles to the north-east, and the motor...
A model of the life-boat, Queen Victoria, in the battle of flowers at Guernsey.. - View image in PDF
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