Amble, Northumberland.—At 1.32 on the afternoon of the 1st of June, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that thefishing boat Glad Tidings had left Druridge Bay for Amble, but that conditions on the Amble harbour bar were dangerous. At 2.17...
THE following coxswains and members of life-boat crews were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and in addition those entitled to them, by the Institution's regulations, were awarded an annuity or a retirement allowance...
Category: Awards
1. No. 1100 R.A.F. Marine Craft Unit—two rescue/target towing launches (can be made available for S. & R.).
2. R.N. Dragonflies from station flight available for S. & R. duty, from 08.00 hours to...
Category: Charts
THE report of the committee set up to review the Marine Search and Rescue Organisation of the United Kingdom has now been published. Its publication was reported briefly in certain newspapers, but had little editorial...
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Workington, Cumberland. At 2.30 on the morning of the 29th November, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dredger and a hopper had broken from their moorings off Workington and were drifting ashore. The life-boat Man-...
CRAB BOAT AIDED Cromer, Norfolk. At 9 a.m. on 2pth June, 1964, the crab boat George William was seen by the coxswains of the two lifeboat stations to be adrift with a fouled propeller one mile south-east of Cromer.
The crab...
TANKER ON FIRE Eastbourne and Newhaven, Sussex.
At 8.5 a.m. on 2yth March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretaries at Eastbourne and Newhaven lifeboat stations that the Liberian tanker Otto N. Miller of...
Whitstable, Kent. At approximately 2.15 p.m. on 8th September, 1965, the honorary secretary was told that a small dinghy with one person on board was in difficulties a half a mile off shore. At 2.20 the IRB launched in a strong southwesterly...
Scarborough, Yorkshire. At noon on ist November, 1965, the weather was rapidly deteriorating and two open cobles were still at sea, so the life-boat James and Catherine MacFarlane, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in a...
When the Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 55) docked at Broad Quay, Bristol, in preparation for Bristol Life-boat Day, television announcer Guy Thomas, on behalf of T.W.W.
Ltd., presented a television set to the...
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