Left and top: The sinking yacht is caught on mobile phone camera from the lifeboat while a survivor makes it to the liferaft. - View image in PDF
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(see page 333). - View image in PDF
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Mr. Donald Laker, a member of the Weymouth life-boat crew who went overboard to swim to a yacht with a line, has been awarded the bronze medal for gallantry. The thanks of the Institution on vellum have been accorded collectively to the...
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AT 1.30 on the afternoon of the 3rd of July, 1955, the honorary secretary of the Lytham-St. Anne's station, Mr. J.
Kennedy, was told by the Formby coastguard that a yacht was at anchor one mile north of Southport...
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Soutbend-on-Sea, Essex. — On the night of the 22nd May a message was received from the watchman at the pierhead that a motor pinnace, belonging to the schooner yacht Westward, which was anchored off the pier, was drifting rapidly to the west...
The Southwold motor life-boat towing in Wild Duck II on 22nd September. (See page 372.;. - View image in PDF
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LAUNCH TO CAPSIZED DINGHY Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland.
At 10.30 on the morning of the 12th August, 1962, the honorary secretary noticed a yacht and a sailing dinghy being blown to the north of the harbour in Berwick...
FEBRUARY 29TH. - PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
At 2.45 P.M. the armed patrol yacht Boyne Water, which was anchored in St. Tudwalls Roads, signalled for a doctor, and Dr. Lloyd Hughes, of Abersoch, asked the life-boat to take...
SOUTH-EAST ENGLAND Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 4.6 p.m. on 8th September, 1965, a yacht and a motor boat were reported in distress between Bembridge Harbour and St. Helens. There was a strong southwesterly breeze with a rough sea. The tide...