FEBRUARY 13TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESS- SHIRE. At 2.50 A.M. the Wick coastguard reported by telephone that signals of distress had been seen in Scrabster Bay, and at 3.30 A.M. the motor life-boat H.C.J. was launched. A strong N.N.E. gale was...
Music to the RNLI's ears! Bournemouth Gilbert and Sullivan accompanist Mrs Jean Hancock tries to find the tune on a £500 cheque presented by the society's chairman Mr Gilbert Clayton to Mr Doug Reeves, honorary secretary of... - View image in PDF
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Coxswain Peter Bisson of St Peter Port joined the lifeboat crew in 1980 and became second coxswain in 1984 before being appointed coxswain in 1986. Together with his fellow crew members he was awarded a bronze medal in 1981 for the rescue of... - View image in PDF
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JULY 15TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. An airman had baled out from a British fighter aeroplane, but he was picked up by a boat lowered from a steamer. - Rewards, £13 14s. 6d..
MARCH 6TH . - SEAHAM, DURHAM.
Enemy aircraft had been reported to he bombing and machine-gunning vessels, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £15 8s. 6d.
James Dougal has been assistant second coxswain/ assistant mechanic of Eyemouth lifeboat since 1991. He joined the crew in 1972 and served as assistant mechanic from 1982 until taking up his present position.
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The No. 1 Life-boat of this station, the Parsee, after two unsuccessful attempts, boarded the Hector, a brigantine of New- castle, which on the 9th December was run ashore by her crew to avoid foundering.
This service was...
About 10.40 A..M on 5th December, 1931, a fishing boat was reported to be in difficulties in the Eastern Bay, and the Motor Life-boat, T.B.B.H., was launched in a strong S.W. wind to her help.
The boat was found to be...
PATIENT TO KIRKWALL The honorary secretary was notified at 2.20 a.m. on 4th June, 1965, that a patient on North Ronaldsay required urgent hospital treatment at Kirkwall for appendicitis. As there was no other suitable boat available the life...
FISHING BOAT TOWED THROUGH ROUGH SEA St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 3.57 on the afternoon of the 27th October, 1962, a message was received from Niton radio station that a fishing boat had broken down with engine trouble seven miles west of...