IRB LIFTED CLEAN FROM WATER Two members of the Southend-on-Sea IRB crew, Mr. Colin Sedgwick and Mr.
Robert Chalk, have both received letters of thanks signed by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E...
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Four rescued ON THURSDAY April 8, the honorary secretary of St Ives lifeboat station was down at the boathouse in the late afternoon when, at 1628, he saw a 16ft sailing dinghy leave harbour with two young men and two youths on...
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I WAS just finishing my tea and con- gratulating myself that we had no calls for a fortnight, although it was winter and a stormy one at that, when the news came. There was a loud, sharp knock at the door. Bess (my wife) looked up from...
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PorfhdinJlaen, Caernarvonshire. At 7.30 on the evening of the 23rd of September, 1958, a message was re- ceived from the coastguard that a small dinghy was in difficulties north-east of Porthdinllaen Point. The life-boat Charles Henry...
MARCH 18TH. - FRASERBURGH, AND PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. Just before nine o’clock in the evening the coastguard at Kinnaird Head reported that a white rocket had been seen off Rattray Head, and at 9.20 the Fraserburgh motor life-boat John...
Brian Miles, Director of the RNLI, looks back on 1990 - and forward into the new decade and beyond The deadline for the Winter journal brought home to me that another year has elapsed, a year which I believe has been one of continuing and...
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 9.35 on the evening of the 1st of September, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two people in a dinghy fitted with an outboard motor were shouting for help off the south beach.
At...
DECEMBER 13TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE. An SOS had been received from a motor vessel on fire off Corsewall Point, but the fire was got under control, the injured members of the crew were taken off by a motor launch, and tugs arrived to...
Kirkcudbright. At 10.53 on the morn- ing of the 3rd of February, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed by the police that a fighter aircraft had crashed in the vicinity of Blackshaw Flats in the area of Southerness. It had apparently...