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Ballycotton, Co. Cork - At 12.55 p.m. on 24th August, 1968, the honorary secretary received a report that the fishing boat Naomh Fergus with a crew of three had fired flares three and a half miles west by south of Ballycotton lighthouse. The...

Coverack, Cornwall - At 9.52 p.m.

on 9th April, 1969, it was learnt that a sailing dinghy on passage from Falmouth to Coverack was overdue.

At 10 o'clock the life-boat William Taylor of Oldham was...

Electronic aids to navigation and sailing » chart tpacm In "Wlnmnt", a Nicholson "43" finished by the Berthon Boat Co. Ltd.

The navigational instruments, from left to right, are as follows: HESTIA...

HELICOPTER TOO Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 12.1 a.m.

on 15th September, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a police report had been received stating two flares had been seen on the seaward side of...

SPANIARD WAS ILL At 4.30 p.m. on 23rd December, 1964, the army authorities in Benbecula reported that a Spanish seaman on the Isle of St. Kilda was seriously ill with suspected typhoid, and that as a helicopter could not help, the life-boat...

Dover, Kent. At 1.45 p.m. on 3rd February, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small local motor boat Mary Rose was in difficulty having lost her propeller one mile eastsouth- east of St. Margarets Bay. The life-boat...

Photograph by courtesy of the Evening Argus, Brighton EI1JOV5 On the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Inshore Rescue Boats Evinrude motors have to work hard Have to be ready for action all the time, reliable, powerful. And they always are...