Stranded in cave THREE CLIFF CLIMBERS, missing west of Anvil Point, were reported to Swanage lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1733 on Saturday November 29, 1980; the station's 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat J. Reginald Corah, was launched...
Si. ANDREW'S, N.B. —- The Life-boat placed on this station some years since by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION had done good service from time to time, it having saved 22 lives from different ship- wrecks ; but last year it was found...
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When two holidaymakers in a hired cruiser started sinking in sub-zero waters, there was no time to lose …
Breydon Water, an estuary in Norfolk where the Rivers Yare, Bure and Waveney converge,...
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AT 11.40 on the night of the 6th of December, 1959, the honorary secre- tary of the Longhope, Orkneys, life- boat station, Dr. S. Peace, was told by the Kirkwall coastguard that the trawler George Robb was ashore on the Stacks of...
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Marooned on dolphin THE DLA of Morecambe lifeboat station was informed by Liverpool Coastguard at 1625 on Sunday October 17, 1982, that a board sailor was in difficulties in Half Moon Bay, near Heysham. Maroons were fired at 1628 and at 1635...
On the same evening during a heavy gale from the N.W., the Life-boat Princess of Wales on this station put off to the brigantine Form, of Liverpool, in reply to her signals of distress, and landed her crew of 6 men. The vessel was in the...
Gregory Conneely, chairman of Galway and Aran Fishermen's Co-Operative Society, presents a cheque for £1,500, the result of a proportion of its fish auction being made over to the RNLI. (1. to r.) Noel Mickey, chairman of Galway... - View image in PDF
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BARRU MARINE DIVISION Suppliers of OUTBOARD ENGINES DM I I INSHORE AlHL.1 LIFEBOATS for over 25 years to the As a result of an appeal to raise funds by the Lawnflite garden machinery division of E.P.BARRUS Ltd.
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"MAKING THE POUNDS GO FURTHER" "Faith, for a clergyman, is an essential ingredient of life. Hut back in /V.S'/ Vi'eiuly and I had to apply it in a more secular situation - whether or not to infest in HPR. In its early...
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The Brighton IRB being launched in a choppy sea. During the first six months of this year IRBs were launched 225 times compared with 112 for the same period last year.. - View image in PDF
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