Exercising with a helicopter from RAF Valley, the mountains of North Wales in the background.. - View image in PDF
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FOUR BOATS AND CREWS SAVED IN deteriorating weather conditions on 8th November, 1971, the 70-foot steel life-boat Grace Paterson Ritchie, stationed at Kirkwall, Orkney, went to the aid of the Danish fishing vessel Clupea which had broken...
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire; Rhyl, Flintshire; Beaumaris and Moelfre, Anglesey - At 4 p.m. on 6th May, 1968, the coastguard informed the Llandudno honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser had broken down one mile west of Great Ormes Head...
Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—At 8.15 in the morning of the 26th of October, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a message had been received from the tug Superman asking for the life-boat to take four men off a sinking hulk three miles south of...
THE Institution has awarded a certifi- cate of service to Joseph Rourke, of Howth, co. Dublin, and has also made him a compassionate grant. He was born in 1854 and became a member of the Howth crew in 1870,-at the age of sixteen. He served...
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Coxswain Derek Scott, B.E.M., of the Mumbles life-boat, receiving a bar to his silver medal from the Duke of Kent, President of the R.N.L.I. at the annual meeting in London on 18th May.. - View image in PDF
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Humber, Yorkshire.—At about 4.35 A.M. on the 21st February the life-boat watchman reported that a vessel had run ashore about a quarter-mile N.E.
of Spurn light-vessel. She was the steam trawler Rose of England, of Grimsby,...
During a gale from the S.E., and in a heavy sea, on the 23rd Jan., a schooner was observed to run into St. Andrew's Bay at daybreak, in the di- rection of the West Sands, and close to the broken water. On a gun being fired to warn her of...
The lighting services have given as never before. Last year they gave £19.385- The Air Force gave eleven times as much as in the last year of peace; the Navy twelve .times as much; the Array twenty-one times as much..
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FEBRUARY 1ST. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 12.24 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that red flares had been seen four miles south-west-by-west of Clacton pier, and half an hour later the motor lifeboat Edward Z. Dresden was...