LIFEBOAT BUMPS OVER SAND TO STRANDED YACHT Four saved from yacht aground in heavy sea and swell A service by the Walton and Frinton lifeboat to a yacht aground with four people on board has earned the coxswain a letter of thanks from the...
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Skilful ILB Rescue off Southwold SHORTLY before 10 a.m. on 6th February, 1972, Mr. Patrick Pile, a member of the Southwold inshore life-boat crew, walked to the end of the harbour mouth. The wind was east south east, force 6, and gusting...
Tynemouth, and Cullercoats, Northum- berland. At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 5th August, 1961, the life-boat Tynesider stationed at Tynemouth was launched on a routine combined exer- cise with a helicopter from No. 228 Squadron, R.A.F....
Sick man aboard ferry AT 1300 on the afternoon of Thursday October 4, 1984, Poole's 33ft Brede class lifeboat. Inner Wheel, launched on service after the cross channel ferry, Purbeck, reported she had a man aboard with severe abdominal...
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NOVEMBER 20TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.
At 11.10 A.M. a steamer was seen to be aground on Robin Rigg Bank, about five miles north of Maryport. A W.N.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. Visibility was very bad. At 11...
In this issue News Letters Feature Lifeboats on the Thames Lifeboats move into the big city with the establishment of four new stations on the River Thames Lifeboats in action Award-winning rescues - including an account of four people...
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Salcombe, Devon. At 2.50 on the morning of the 7th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a boy was missing at Burgh Island and that it was thought he had fa!!en over a cliff. A request was made for the help...
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