GALE WARNING GIVEN New Quay, Cardiganshire. At 10.45 a.m. on yth July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat was in difficulties in very rough seas on the New Quay side of Ynys Lochtyn.
The tide...
Angle, Pembrokeshire.—At 11.48 on the night of the 15th of January, 1954,the St. Govan's Head coastguard rang up to say that the steam trawler Lynandi, of Milford Haven, with a crew of twelve, had broken adrift from a tow by another...
WHEN I WAS FOUR...
0 My first contribution to the R.N.L.I, was made at the age of approximately 4 years in 1897, this being on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. There was a procession through the town...
Category: Correspondence
At daylight on the 20th Oc- tober, the American ship, Annie E. Hooper, was first seen to be ashore on the Horse ! Bank, from Southport, distant five miles.
The life-boat there was at once launched, j and after much...
Robert Wrey MBE - Seahouses lifeboat station Chairman and former Lifeboat Operations Manager.
Category: Obituaries
Keith Robinson - Conwy Lifeboat Operations Manager and acting Lifeboat Press Officer.
Category: Obituaries
FEBRUARY 18TH and 19TH. - ST. ABBS, AND EYEMOUTH, BERWICKSHIRE. A vessel on fire had been reported, but nothing could be found. - Rewards : St. Abbs, £21 2s.
6d. ; Eyemouth, £26 5s. 6d..
BROADSTAIRS.—The Life-boat Frances Forbes Barton was launched at 3 P.M. on the 12th January in a very rough sea, the wind blowing a whole gale from W.S.W.
veering to N.N.W., with rain squalls, a signal of distress being...
Three hard-working supporters each receive a donation for the RNLI, and encouragement from Mrs Margaret Thatcher, Leader of the Opposition: Chelsea Pensioners (I. to r.) Frank Elverson, Topper Brown and Joe Marriott, who between them... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
IN safety we sit in our homes, I And read about storms on the sea, ' Of the dangers which men undergo, I And how brave in the danger they be.
We read of the waves mountain high, | Of the wind and its...
Category: Poetry