OCTOBER 10TH. - ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE.
About 5 A.M. red flares were seen N.W. of Skokholm Island and reported to the life-boat authorities by the naval officer at Milford Haven. A W.S.W. wind was blowing, with a rough se The...
Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 6.17 A.M.
on the 12th December the coastguard reported that distress flares had been seen four or five miles N.E. of Castle Hill. A moderate N.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and it was very...
THE DUKE OF MONTROSE has been com- pelled by ill-health to give up the work which, for many years, he has done for the Life-boat Service, as a member of the Committee of Manage- ment of the Institution and its treasurer, and as chairman of...
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An oil painting of the Walton-on-the-Naze life-boat aiding the grounded collier Ypapanti, off the Essex coast in the November gales of 1966, was the centre of attraction at a dinner and life-boat film show in aid of the R.N.L.I. at the... - View image in PDF
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The ! Life-boat William Hopkinson of Brig- ' house, from this station, during a heavy gale off shore, proceeded to the ketch Perseverance, of Sunderland, on the 28th September, in answer to signals of dis- tress displayed by...
Like a giant sand castle, the picturesque granite island of St Michael's Mount rises 100m from the waters of Mount's Bay capped with a real 14th century castle.
The causeway, which is revealed at low tide, connects... - View image in PDF
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PORTHDINLLAEN.—At 11.30A.M. on the 20th January, the George Moore Life-boat was launched, and proceeded to the assistance of the s.s. yacht Vixen, of Beaumaris, which was found to be abandoned.
With much difficulty, owing...
Again, on the 24th March, the same life-boat went off to the rescue of the crew of the brig Prtmdentia, of Svelvig, near Drammen. In running for the harbour, during a gale of wind from the S.E., the vessel had struck on the rocks near the...