When HRH The Prince of Wales visited Connah's Quay, Deeside, on July II, he met Garry Jones, station honorary secretary (c.) and Flint lifeboatmen who were there to launch their D class inflatable lifeboat down the new slipway built as... - View image in PDF
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DEC. 3RD. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 10.30 A.M. the coastguard reported that a boat a few hundred yards from the Shoreham gas works, on a lee shore, appeared to have hoisted a coat as a distress signal. A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing...
JUNE 18TH. - DOVER, KENT. At 2 P.M.
information was received through the coastguard that a naval cabin cruiser appeared to be in need of help about three miles from Sandgate. A moderate E.N.E. gale was blowing, with a rough...
JULY 3 0TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At 1.47 A.M. a local resident telephoned that an aeroplane had come down in flames off Cley, and the motor life-boat Foresters Centenary was launched at 3.42 A.M.
The sea...
DECEMBER 9TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL, CLOVELLY, AND APPLEDORE, DEVON. On the afternoon of the 9th December Padstow No. 1 motor life-boat put out to the help of a Whitley bombing aeroplane which had been reported down in the...
At 7.15 P.M. on the 9th June a mes- sage was received by telephone from the Civic Guards at Curracloe that a fishing boat was in distress in the North Bay.
The Motor Life-boat K.E.C.F. put out in a moderate S.S.W. breeze...
The small rowing boat Winifred, of Ramsgate, with two men aboard, put to sea on the morning of the 13th July, but a thick fog came down and the men did not know where they were. Their cries for help were heard, and the Motor Life-boat...
St. Peter Port, Guernsey, and St. Helier, Jersey.—2nd February, 1938. A report had been received that a French military aeroplane had been forced down sea, but later it was learned that the plane was safe. The St. Peter Port motor life-boat...
On the 31st of January, 1953, the British Railways ferry Princess Victoria sank in a gale in the Irish Sea.
The Portpatrick, Donaghadee, Clou- ghey and Newcastle, Co. Down, life- boats were all launched on service.
Fowey, Cornwall.—At 5.35 on the evening of the 3rd of November, 1953, a shipping company at Par reported that they had received a message that the motor ship Summity, of London, had asked for help as she had broken down half a mile...