DEC. 12TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, AND CAISTER, NORFOLK.
A steamer had been reported to be on fire after striking a mine, but a trawler had picked up five survivors and nothing else was found but some wreckage. -...
OCTOBER 6TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
A salvage steamer bringing scrap iron from a wreck had struck some rocks during. a fog and had sunk, but her crew were picked up from their small boat by an Aberdeen trawler. -...
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire, and HoIyhead, Angelsey.—22nd March.
Searched without success for a small boat which was adrift and eventually made land in Co. Down after thirty-five hours at sea.—Rewards, Porthdinllaen,...
In addition to the services by IRB's which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full elsewhere in THE LIFE-BOAT, the following launches on service were made during the months of April to August, 1965, inclusive: Aberdovey,...
Category: Services
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man. — 5th September. A small yacht with a crew of three had disappeared while going to Castletown, and no trace of her could be found. One body was picked up by a fishing boat.—Rewards, £7 10s. 6d..
JANUARY 12TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, AND BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. Fishing trawlers, an Admiralty trawler, and a steamer had been bombed and machine-gunned, but all were able to go on their way except a fishing trawler which another vessel towed into...
JANUARY 11TH. - BEAUMARIS, ANGLESEY.
An aeroplane had been reported down, but was found to have come down on land.
- Rewards, £12 16s. 6d..
JUNE 30TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.
A pilot was thought to have baled out from an aeroplane, but a target had broken away from her, and been mistaken for a man. - Rewards, £5 0S. 6d..
DECEMBER 8TH AND 9TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. A small boat had been reported in difficulties, but reached shore safely, and a motor boat had been reported adrift, but later was reported safe. - Rewards : first service, £8 8s. ;...
Caister, Norfolk, and Lowestoft, Suffolk.
— 17th May. A barge had grounded on Scroby Sand, but got off and was taken in tow by a tug.— Rewards, Caister, £14 12s. 6d.; Lowestoft, £13 175. Qd..