Seven saved FALMOUTH, Sunday May 24, 1987: The 56ft yacht Sule Skerry was in the Helford River with a heavy swell running when a rope fouled her propeller and she was driven into a rocky cleft at the foot of the cliffs at Durgan, near...
On the 4th March the sloop Hannah, of Liverpool, being driven into Ratwharf bay, and a gale coming on, hoisted signals of distress, when the Moelfre life-boat proceeded to her aid, and found the crew helpless from fatigue and long...
On 30th July, 1965, at 9.40 a.m. the local doctor requested the use of the lifeboat to take a man who had been seriously injured in a motor cycle accident to hospital. As no other boats were available, the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson put...
Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 4.30 p.m. on i2th September, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a yacht had capsized two miles north of Hartlepool.
There was a light north-easterly breeze with a calm sea. The...
TAKEN IN TOW At 11.53 a.m. on 20th May, 1966, the police informed the honorary secretary that a man had been seen in difficulties off Kimmeridge ledge. It was requested that the life-boat be launched. A sergeant and a constable embarked in...
At 12.22 a.m. on i6th July, 1966, a small fishing boat was seen drifting off No. 9 Sea Reach buoy. There was a fresh south-westerly breeze with a rough sea. It was one hour after high water. The lifeboat Greater London II (Civil Service...
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 12.11 on the afternoon of the 15th of September, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that the local fishing boat Why Worry, with a crew of two, appeared to have broken down off Trimingham, four miles south-east of Cromer. At...
Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At seven o'clock on the evening of the 26th of January, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that a patient at Knoydart needed urgent medical treatment. As no other boat was available, the life- boat E. M....
Weymouth, Dorset - At 1.48 p.m. on llth March, 1970, the coastguard reported that a small boat was in difficulties in Ringstead bay, one mile off shore. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke slipped her moorings at 2.1. There was a moderate...
Mr P. Denham Christie, chairman of the Boat Committee, on behalf of the Institution receives from HRH The Duke of Edinburgh a Design Council Award certificate for the Arun class lifeboat. Facsimiles of the certificate have been sent to each... - View image in PDF
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