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Ex-Coxswain Murdo Sinclair
Ex-coxswain Murdo Sinclair died on igth July, 1965, at the age of 81. He had been coxswain of the Barra Island life-boat for over fifteen years and was awarded the silver medal of the Institution in 1943 for taking the life-boat forty miles...
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Seaside rescue
40.1653A beach goer raised the alarm at Blackpool on 13 September, when he spotted that his partner was having trouble in the water. Two of the three station lifeboats were launched immediately and the woman, who had gone for a swim, was...
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A Dinghy (2)
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 11.20 on the morning of the 9th July, 1961, the police told the honorary secretary that a dinghy had been seen to capsize about a mile east of the Little Orme and that two men were clinging to...
The Keel Boat Courage
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At 9.20 on the morning of the 10th of February, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was off Hayburn Wyke in worsening weather. As a whole gale was blowing from the east-north-east, causing a very rough...
Quinquereme (1)
SECOND CALL TO YACHT At 7 p.m. on 8th May, 1964, the honorary secretary was informed that the yacht Quinquereme had broken away from her moorings and was adrift in the middle of the straits—a potential danger to shipping. As the two local...
The S.S. Rhenania
— At 11.45 P.M. on the 16th February information was received that a vessel was making signals of disbress about two miles to the south of the Head, and at about midnight the Life-boat Matthew Middle- wood was launched. A whole...
Welsh Girl
Barmouth, Merionethshire.—At 3.42 on the afternoon of the 9th of January, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a man had reported that the local fishing boat Welsh Girl had gone aground on the South Bank at the harbour bar. At 4.15 the...
None (4)
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 9.30 on the morning of the 20th of March, 1954, a local doctor asked if the life- boat would take a very sick man to Lochboisdale, where arrangements had been made to fly him to Glasgow. At 10.51 the...
Penguin
Swanage, Dorset.—At 12.20 on the afternoon of the 12th of June, 1957, the St. Albans Head coastguard telephoned that a vessel was waving a red flag two miles east of St. Albans Head. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 12.31 in a calm sea....