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Nicolinda
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 11.25 on the night of the 13th of August, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the Norwegian tanker Sagona that red flares had been seen east of the West Sunk...
Coxswain Albert Bird (R) Aberdeen Entertains Skipper John Thomas Former Assistant Mechanic at Dungeness and the Man Who Saved His Life When Dungeness Lifeboat R
Coxswain Albert Bird (r.), Aberdeen, entertains Skipper John Thomas, former assistant mechanic at Dungeness and the man who saved his life when Dungeness lifeboat rescued six men from Teeswood in the great Channel gale of 1956; a service for... - View image in PDF
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A Small Boat (1)
Runswick, Yorkshire.—On the morn- ing of the 31st of July, 1949, the life- boat mechanic, with a telescope, was watching a yacht manoeuvring and saw a small boat, two miles east of Runswick Bay, flying a distress signal. It was then 11.45,...
Brunette
On the evening of the 6th Sep- tember the weather was calm, but there was a heavy swell on the bar, and the yacht Brunette, of New- castle-on-Tyne, with four young people on board, three brothers and their sister, was seen to be drifting...
Morandi
Early on the morning of the 23rd June four young men left Lynmouth for Mumbles in the auxiliary yacht Morandi, of Mumbles.
Soon after she put out the engine broke down. With the help of her sails she got as far as...
Only Two
Padstow, Cornwall.—On the evening of the 29th July the coastguard reported that a yacht was in distress in Constantine Bay. A strong S.W.
breeze was blowing, with a rough sea.
The No. 2 motor life-boat...
Fortis
Yarmouth, Isle-of-Wight. — At 8.20 in the evening of the 1st of April, 1950, a fisherman at Lymington telephoned that a yacht needed help. He said he had already towed her from a positionoff Christchurch to Lymington Spit buoy, but that she...
Plain Jane
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 10.50 on the night of the 9th of September, 1950, the Kingston-on-Sea coastguard telephoned that a message had been received from the Worthing police.
A vessel was making distress signals two...
Four Girls
YACHT'S CREW SEE FLARES FROM FISHING BOAT Weymouth, Dorset. At 1.47 on the afternoon of the 24th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been reported west of White Nothe, Ringstead...