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Barry Dock, and The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 1.5 on the after- noon of the 12th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretaries at Barry Dock and The Mumbles that a request had been received from the Sea Rescue Co-...

He has taken on some of the most powerful sportsmen on the planet, but when it came to tackling the water, England rugby star James Haskell had to admit defeat.

James put his weight behind the launch of Respect the Water,...

DEC. 1ST. - LYTHAM - ST. ANNE’S, LANCASHIRE, AND NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 8.45 A.M. the Lytham secondcoxswain reported a vessel ashore by Peet’s Light, south of the 12th Mile Beacon. A S.W.

gale was blowing, with a heavy...

At about 3 P.M. on the 29th April a small sailing boat capsized in a squally N.E. wind. News of the accident was telephoned to the life*boat station and the permanent second coxswain of the motor life-boat, accom- panied by another man,...

FOUR WERE RESCUED Ramsey, Isle of Man. At 8.25 p.m.

on 24th August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a motor boat was reported to be in trouble off Port-e- Vullen in rough seas and a moderate...

At the annual presentation of awards last May Coxswain William Jones of Holyhead and Second Coxswain Victor Pitman of Weymouth both received silver medals for gallantry and Second Coxswain Keith Bower a gold medal; all were for services...

THE Institution has awarded its bronze medal for gallantry to Mr. Kenneth Macleod, a fisherman of Pooltiel, Isle of Skye, for rescuing single-handed in a small rowing boat three fishermen whose boat had been wrecked. On the afternoon of the...