Lifeboat crew member Frank Dunster (left) who took his own rigid inflatable to the casualty and Roderick James (right) helmsman of the Hayling Island Atlantic 21.. - View image in PDF
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19th October. A sailing boat was making rough weather, but got into Chichester harbour without help. — Rewards, £11 15s. 6d..
Southwold, Suffolk. At 1.5 p.m. on 5th July, 1964, the harbour master told the honorary secretary that a small dinghy was in difficulties about two miles out.
At 1.10 the inshore rescue boat launched in a moderate westerly...
Getting the reserve life-boat Grace Darling launched in May, 1970, when she was taken by a Bridlington crew from Flamborough to Bridlington.. - View image in PDF
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THREE RESCUED Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 11.20 a.m. on yth June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small sailing boat with a crew of three had capsized one mile west of the pier. It was i| hours after high tide, there...
Anchor dragged THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Tenby lifeboat station was informed by HM Coastguard at 0445 on Sunday September 25, 1983, that the yacht Sailing Bye had dragged her anchor and was aground on the north beach, Tenby. Maroons were...
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.— At 11.5 on the morning of the 15th of July, 1954, the Coast Life-Saving Service reported that a wireless message had been received from the mail steamer Hibernia that a sailing boat had cap- sized off the Kish...
Margate, Kent.—At 6.7 on the even- ing of the 8th of August, 1952, thecoastguard telephoned that a sailing barge was ashore on the North-East Shingle Sands, and at 6.10 the life-boat North Foreland, Civil Service No. XI, was launched. The...
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 4.30 on the afternoon of the 18th of August, 1957, the life-boat H.C.J., on temporary duty at the station, was launched for a routine exercise with the honorary secretary, Mr. C. A. Perry, on...
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At 12.12 on the afternoon of the 12th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the chairman of the branch, who was acting as honorary secretary, that a sailing dinghy had capsized a mile and a half from South Pirsey...