Newhaven, Sussex.—13th September, 1938. A search was made for an overdue fishing boat, but she came in unaided.—Rewards £11 7s. 6d..
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. — 25th April, 1939. An aeroplane had been reported missing, but she had landed at Alderney.—Rewards, £4 13s. 6d..
Holybead, Anglesey.—22nd May. A small boat had been lost sight of during a squall. She had got ashore in a small cove.—Rewards, £4 7s. 6d..
OCTOBER 1ST. - PETERHEAD, AHERDEENSHIRE.
A fishing boat had been reported overdue, but it was found that she had put into Aberdeen. - Rewards, £13 3s. 6d..
THE NINETEENTH RNLI national lottery was drawn on October 29, 1982, by Lt-Col D. R. R. Storrie, commanding officer of the Royal Marines, Hamworthy, Poole. Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston, a deputy chairman of the Institution, and Anthony...
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Whitby, Yorkshire.—In the early morning of the 8th of April, 1949, the local motor fishing boat Pilot Me II left for the fishing grounds, was over- taken by bad weather and decided to return to Whitby. At half past six the life-boat coxswain...
Galway Bay. — At ten o'clock in the morning of the 12th of July, 1949, the local doctor asked for the help of the life-boat to take an urgent surgical case to Costello, Connemara, and the life-boat K.E.C.F. was launched at eleven...
Baltimore, Co. Cork.—15th January, 1938. A steam trawler was in difficulties.
The distressed trawler had sent out signals by wireless. These had been picked up on shore, but communications with Baltimore were out of order....
Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 12.3 on the afternoon of the 10th of March, 1947, the Medical Officer of Health asked for the life-boat for a woman at Outrabis- ter, Lunnaness, who must be brought at once to hospital at Lerwick for an...