CREW OF THREE Salcombe, South Devon. At 5.2 p.m.
on 9th October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a sailing yacht appeared to be in distress two miles west-north-west of Bolt Tail. She was tossing in a...
At ii p.m. on 3rd January, 1965, a message was received by the honorary secretary that a sick man needed to be landed from the German motor vessel Clipper at approx. 4.15 a.m. The life-boat Solomon Browne launched at 3.10 proceeded to Newlyn...
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire—At 10.47 in the morning of the 18th of February,1952, the coastguard telephoned that the local fishing boat Frigate Bird had broken down one and a half miles to the southward and at 11.12 the lifeboat Jeanie Speirs...
SEVEN FISHING BOATS ESCORTED TO HARBOUR Whitby, Yorkshire. On the afternoon of the 9th November, 1962, anxiety was felt for the safety of local fishing boats which were still at sea, and at 1.20 it was decided to launch the life-boat. At...
Selsey, Sussex.—On the morning of the 23rd July the coastguard reported that a fishing boat was in distress about half a mile N.W. of Selsey Bill. A strong S. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The motor life-boat Canadian Pacific was...
Capsized rowing boat TWO FISHERMEN of Newbiggin launched their ferrier rowing boat to go out to their keep-box moored offshore at about 1115 on Friday, January 31, 1975.
When only a short distance from the shore, some 50 to...
Alun Richards ENNAL'S POINT • 'Those heroic volunteers who man the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's boats spring vividly to life in Ennal's Point.... the bravery of the lifeboatmen has been much neglected in fiction and...
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Fishing boat aground AT 2319 on Saturday September 20, 1980, Shetland Coastguard informed Coxswain/Mechanic Hewitt Clark of Lerwick lifeboat station that the fishing vessel Maverick was aground on the east side of Fair Isle; she was listing...
For a change, the endurance of Second Coxswain Peter Leith of Lerwick is being tested other than by hours spent at sea in bad conditions.
Here he is seen on the station's open day during an eight-hour non-stop sponsored... - View image in PDF
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Pauline Morris, chairman of Newquay ladies' guild, Cornwall, and her husband, Mr M. H. Morris, station honorary secretary, run a dance club in aid of the RNLI which meets at the WI Hall every Saturday evening. A small charge is made for... - View image in PDF
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