YACHT WAS AGROUND At 10.7 p.m. on 2nd August, 1964, a local resident informed the honorary secretary that a white flare had been seen at the entrance to Morar bay. It was halftide with a moderate sea and a gentle south-westerly breeze. At 10...
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Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 7 a.m.
on i8th August, 1965, a yacht was reported ashore at Sgeir Cailleach. At 7.15 the lifeboat E. M. M. Gordon Cubbin was launched with the second coxswain in charge, in a south-westerly gale...
Ramsgate, Kent. At 9.9 p.m. on loth November, 1965, the coastguard at Deal informed the honorary secretary that the Margate coastguard had observed a vessel burning flares two miles north-east of Foreness Point. The lifeboat Michael and Lily...
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex - At 3.58 p.m. on 1st April, 1968, news was received that a fishing vessel was making distress signals half a mile east of the east breakwater. The lifeboat Dorothy and Philip Constant was launched at 4.3 in a fresh...
The speedboat Hot Banana lived up to her name on 6 July when a fire, believed to have started in the outboard engine, spread to the fuel tank and caused a major explosion.
The boat burst into flames at the entrance to... - View image in PDF
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After her naming and a service of dedication on Sunday July 19, New Brighton's new Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat is towed across the beach ready for launching. She is one of the Atlantics generously provided by Fred Olsen Lines... - View image in PDF
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Fishing boat capsized A TELEPHONE CALL was received by the honorary secretary of Penarth lifeboat station at 1311 on Friday September 18, 1981, from The Mumbles Coastguard requesting the launch of the lifeboat: a message had come on VHP...
Tyne rescues crews of two yachts in galeThe Director of the RNLI has written to thank the crew of the Ramsgate lifeboatfor a service 'carried out very professionally' after the station's Tyne had rescued the crews of two yachts...
Starting them young! Eleven month old Adam Sheahan pictured left, has to be one of the RNLI's youngest fundraisers. He spent a day with his grandma, May Perkins, when she went out collecting on behalf of Hertford fundraising branch. The... - View image in PDF
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