Shifting sands: who needs oil when you can make £400 selling sand? These arabs, more usually members of Port Talbot Rotoract Club, were undeterred when they could not obtain a licence to collect in the street for The Mumbles lifeboat... - View image in PDF
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My husband and I had a rather unusual experience on 7 August. We were enjoying a really good break, staying at the RNLI’s college in Poole for 3 nights. (Your accommodation is excellent and the food delectable!) On our last morning we walked...
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Among those associated with the life-boat service on whom honours were bestowed in the Birthday Honours list were: G.B.E. Alderman Sir James Miller, Lord Mayor of the City of London, ex officio member of the Committee of Management.
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FEBRUARY 9TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON, AND THE LIZARD, CORNWALL. The S.S. Georges Mabro, of Alexandria, had been reported out of control to the south of Start Point, and the Salcombe motor life-boat put out at 1.40 P.M., but was signalled from...
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 6.10 on the evening of the 21st of October, 1949, news was received from Bor- deaux, three miles north of St. Peter Port, that a yacht, with a cabin cruiser in tow, was in difficulties, being carried astern by...
Douglas, Isle of Man.—At 5.40 in the evening of the 7th of September, 1951, the S.S. Lady of Man reported to the Ramsey coastguard that she had seen a cabin cruiser in distress about thirteen miles south-east of Douglas and that the cruiser...
FALMOUTH.—The full-rigged ship Vondel> of Amsterdam, bound from Liverpool for Port Adelaide with a cargo of superphosphates, stranded on the rocks near St. Mawes Castle Point, in an extremely dangerous position, having dragged her anchor...
PAKEFIELD.—On the 18th January, at 11 A.M., when blowing very hard from S.S.W., the steamer Ludworth, bound from Hartlepool to London, was seen to exhibit signals of distress, and the No. 1 Lifeboat The Two Sisters, Mary and Hannah, was...
At 3.15 p.m. on 20th January, 1965, the local nurse informed the honorary secretary that a young woman needed hospital treatment and as no other was available requested the use of the lifeboat.
At 3.45 the patient and nurse...