MAJOR A» D. BURNETT BROWN, M.C., the deputy secretary of the Institution, who served with the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry during the war, and is now second in com- mand of the Buckinghamshire (Ter- ritorial)...
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Six stages in the helicopter episode at Lyme Regis: in flight, descent into the sea, flotation bags inflated, the ILB alongside, towing the helicopter, the helicopter safely beached.. - View image in PDF
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YACHT AGROUND At 1.40 p.m. on 2ist May, 1966, a yacht was reported in difficulties one mile east of Llanbedrog Point and about three miles south west of the station. The IRB was launched at 1.45 in a strong south westerly wind and a rough...
UNSUCCESSFUL SEARCH Margate, Kent. At 3.41 p.m. on ist April, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two men had been lost overboard from the survey ship H.M.S. Echo in the Edinburgh Channel off the North East Shingles...
As part ofNewquay's very full fund-raising programme the ladies of the guild join in the town's floral dance. When Rear Admiral Wilfred Graham visited Cornwall in June he presented a joint statuette to Michael and Pauline Morris: he... - View image in PDF
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Wells, Norfolk.—At 10.4 on the night of the 16th of July, 1949, the Wells coastguard reported that a flare had been seen three miles to the west-north- west, and at 10.30 the life-boat Cecil Paine was launched, with the second coxswain in...
On the 2nd Sep- tember, at three p.m., a vessel was observed aground on the Arklow bank, 8 or "9 miles distant from Arklow. The life-boat of that place proceeded at once to her aid, when *he found a heavy sea breaking over and around...
Howth, Co. Dublin. At 10.30 on the morning of the 12th of March, 1958, the coxswain heard on his radio that the fishing trawler Ros Aluinn of Howth had lost her rudder and was in need of help.At 11.10 the life-boat R.P.L. put out in a rough...
Fowey, Cornwall. At 12.26 on the afternoon of the llth July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a sailing boat was on the rocks to the west of Fowey harbour.
There was a gentle southerly breeze and...
In front of the group is one of the life-boat boxes which collected £227 in three months (See page 154). - View image in PDF
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