In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 267, 283, and 304, the following launches on service were made during the months June to August, 1967, inclusive: Aberdovey,...
Category: Services
SOUTH WEST St. Ives, Cornwall - At 6.25 p.m. on 3rd July, 1967, news was received that a skin diver was missing near the Stones reef. The IRB was launched at 6.30 in a moderate westerly breeze and a choppy sea. The tide was ebbing. The...
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SAFETY RULES A skipper whose 60-foot motor yawl rammed a 12-foot sailing dinghy, shipwrecking the latter crew, was fined £2 in January for careless navigating in Chichester harbour. The defendant had pleaded guilty to navigating a...
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Awards on the Closing of Stations.
ALNMOUTH.
JOHN W. STEWART, 12J years second cox- swain and 8$ years a member of the crew, a life-boatman's certificate of service, and a pension.
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JANUARY DURING January life-boats were launched on service 30 times but rescued no lives.
FIREMEN TAKEN TO BELGIAN TRAWLER Selsey, Sussex. At 8.20 on the morn- ing of 4th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary...
Category: Services
On the 26th Oc- tober, the schooner Ceres, of Arbroath, ran ashore, in a heavy sea, on the Salthouse Bank, striking heavily, and sustaining much, damage. The Lytham life-boat proceeded to the aid of her crew, and remaining by her until the...
WRECK CHART OF THE FOR THE YEAR ,,- .
1909-1910.
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24th March. A dis- abled yacht was drifting towards the Goodwins, but motor boats took her in tow.—Rewards, £30 16s. 6d..
Coxswain Blogg Twice Rams The Bulwarks of the Wreck and So Gets The Life-Boat Right Under The Rigging Where The Two Men Are. First One and Then The Other Jumps Aboard. - View image in PDF
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Four more lifeboats for the RNLis miniature collection were presented to Ravmond Baxter bv Brian Williams fr) at Earls Court. Made bv Mr Williams, thev are the gift of Mr and Mrs R. Phillips of Salcombe.. - View image in PDF
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