At 9.30 a.m. on 30th January, 1967, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that a boy was ill on Inishmaan Island and would have to be taken to hospital. As no other boat was available the honorary secretary agreed that the...
Amble, Northumberland - At 7.21 a.m. on i8th April, 1967, two cobles were reported at sea with conditions on the bar bad. At 7.58 the cobles were seen to be approaching the harbour, and the life-boat Millie Walton slipped her moorings five...
Plymouth, Devon - At 10.10 p.m. on ist April, 1967, a yacht was reported to be in difficulties inshore and dangerously close to rocks near the Royal Western yacht club. She appeared to be trying, without success, to pick up a mooring.The...
Walton & Frinton, Essex - At 2.4 a.m. on 25th May, 1967, it was learned that there was a sick man on board the tanker Daleward who needed to be brought ashore for medical attention. The life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott, on temporary...
Newhaven, Sussex - At 2.35 p.m. on 25th June, 1967, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a flare had been seen half a mile offPortobello sewer outfall. The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 2.45 in a south westerly gale and...
Ramsgate, Kent - At 5.33 p.m. on I2th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a yacht half a mile east of the North Goodwin buoy was firing flares. The Swedish ship Buenas Aires was standing by until the life-boat arrived....
FRASERBURGH, Saturday October 18, 1986: this photograph, taken by Motor Mechanic Thomas Summers aboard the 47ft Tyne class lifeboat, City of Edinburgh, gives little impression of the 10ft swell, rough seas and gale force southerly wind which...
The Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum has been awarded to Paul Gilson, helmsman of the Southend lifeboat, following the rescue of two people from the yacht First Knight in appalling weather conditions.
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APRIL 22ND. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 7.30 A.M. anxiety was being felt for the safety of some of the fishing cobles, as a very strong N.N.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea. As both life-boat coxswains, and a number of the...
JUNE 3RD. - DOVER, KENT. During the morning six children belonging to the Dover garrison were cut off by the tide under Shakespeare Cliff. A moderate N.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor boarding boat William Myatt, attached to...