While on holiday on the Isle of Wight last summer, Albert the Irish Wolfhound collected nearly £50 for Yarmouth lifeboat.
Owner Mary Knight took him along to the station's open day and not many people were able to... - View image in PDF
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The tale starts back in the 1960s, when two inspired RNLI volunteers were enjoying a Fred. Olsen cruise …
When supporters Howard and Poppy Bell encouraged fellow guests to help the RNLI during their holiday, the...
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Southend-on-Sea, Essex.-—2nd July, 1939. A rowing boat had got into difficulties and a motor boat which went to her aid broke down, but both boats got in unaided.—Rewards, £10 10s. 6d..
Barra Island, Hebrides.—26th December, 1937. A rowing boat had been overwhelmed in Loch Eynort on the 23rd December, and two of her crew of three had been drowned. The life-boat went out to search for the two bodies, but without...
Salcombe, Devon.—6th August, 1938.
A motor boat had been reported missing, but while a search was being made to the westward, the boat returned from the eastward.—Rewards, £9 Is..
Selsey, Sussex—20th January. The life-boat made a long, but unsuccessful, search for a small boat. The boat, and later the bodies of the two men who had been on board, were washed ashore.—Rewards, £20 17s. 6d..
JAN. 19TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
A motor boat had gone ashore at Lossiemouth, but her crew were able to scramble over t h e rocks £10 6s. 3d.
to safety.-Rewards,.
FEBRUARY 8TH. - HOWTH, CO. DUBLIN.
A small fishing boat with two men on board was long overdue, but while a search was being made for her she got in without help. - Rewards, £14 0s. 6d..
JULY 20TH. - BALTIMORE, CO. CORK.
Information had been received that a cargo boat had been torpedoed, but though the life-boat searched for a long time in the neighbourhood of the Fastnet Rock she found nothing. - Rewards,...
FEBRUARY 9TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESS- SHIRE. A ship’s boat had been reported drifting off Sandside Head, but nothing was found. The boat later went ashore, badly damaged, with no one on board.
- Rewards, £10 1s....