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Dungeness, Kent - At 6.25 p.m. on 24th June, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that three skin divers were missing in the Varne bank area about eight miles east of Dungeness.
The life-boat Mabel E....
Memorial Services
Among the R.N.L.I. representatives who attended the memorial service in Westminster Abbey for Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, on 25th October, 1968, were the Chairman, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O.; the two Deputy...
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Lifeboats at war
75 years ago the British Navy attempted an audacious wartime operation. It would change the course of the Second World War – and challenge our lifeboats to tackle a very different kind of...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—continued
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—The schooner Pausillipo, of Ramsey, while on a voyage from Whitehaven with coals, was caught in a gale off Ramsey, and after losing her mainboom, and having her mainsail split, went ashore, in a leaky state, to leeward...
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Siroco
Walmer, Kent.—At 5.28 on the after- noon of the 27th of April, 1953. the Deal coastguard rang up to say that the fishing boat Siroco, of Boulogne, had hit a wreck in the Downs and appeared to have stuck, and at 5.35 the life-boat Charles...
Venturous
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 9.44 on the morn- ing of the 27th of July, 1954. a message was received from the East Pier that amotor yacht was burning red flares off Quern Buoy in the Ramsgate channel. At 9.52 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put...
Audentia
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. — At 11.18 on the night of the 10th of August, 1954, the coastguard reported that a vessel appeared to be aground off St.
Combs, but at 11.50 she was seen to be under way. At midnight she...
Feistein
Walmer, Kent.—At 11.56 on the night of the 18th of October, 1954, the Deal coastguard telephoned that a vessel had gone aground two and a half miles east of the coastguard sta- tion and had signalled SOS. At 12.10 early on the 19th the...
West Wind
Dover, Kent.—At 8.25 on the evening of the 17th of June, 1956, the Sandgatecoastguard rang up to say the auxi- liary yacht West Wind needed help three miles east of South Goodwin lightvessel. The life-boat Southern Africa put out at 8.45 in...
An Anson Aeroplane
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 1.39 in the afternoon, on the 18th of July, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that an Anson aeroplane had come down in the sea twenty miles distant in a north- easterly direction from Ramsgate. At 1.51 the life...