LIFE-BOAT ESCORTS FISHING VESSEL IN TOW Torbay, Devon. At 5.4 on the afternoon of the 20th May, 1962, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from the police at Torbay that a boat near Thatcher rock needed help. The...
St. Helier, Jersey.—At 4.30 in the afternoon of the 8th of August, 1948, a message was received from the har- bour office that a sailing boat appeared to be in difficulties six miles off Gorey, and at 5.15 the motor life-boat Howard D. put...
OCT. 26TH. - RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.
A drifter had been reported as flying distress signals, but she got in to the shelter of Douglas Bay unaided. The life-boat was out for nearly five hours in a gale with a heavy sea. -...
Salcombe, Devon. At 11.50 on the morning of the 2nd of September, 1958, the coastguard at Bolt Head informed the honorary secretary that a sailing boat had capsized half a mile south- west of Steeple Cove look-out hut and that two people...
Selsey, Sussex. At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 15th of March, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been reported off Bognor and that further enquiries were being made. At 2.40 the coastguard reported that...
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 4.45 in the morning, on the 6th of July, 1950, the Spurn Point coastguard telephoned a report from the Bull lightvessel that she had an inju ed man needing help.
At 5.5 the life-boat City of Bradford...
TOW FOR FISHING BOAT WITH FOULED PROPELLER Aberdeen. At 11.10 on the night of the 4th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen three to four miles east-south-east of Gregness. The life-boat W...
Arklow, Co. Wicklow, and Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—8th September, 1939. Shortly before midnight reports had been received that flares from a vessel ashore on Blackwater Bank had been seen. Both life-boats searched without success, and...
Aiming High! The Navy Again Took Part In Portsmouth Life-Boat Day Among Others Who Helped Were The Portsmouth Brotherhood. - View image in PDF
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In April members of the Facta non Verba Lodge 3049 met Newhaven lifeboat VIPs to present them with a cheque for £2,000.. - View image in PDF
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