JANUARY 29TH. - PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.
The Isle of Man Steam Packet Passenger and Mail Boat, Rushen Castle, with 150 passengers and crew on board, left Liverpool at 10 A.M. on the 27th January, 1940, and arrived in Douglas Bay...
During-a whole S.S.W. gale with a heavy sea on the 14th January, the Coxswain was at the Life-boat Station, when, at 12.30 P.M., he received information from the Coastguard that the small fishing boat Thistle, of Peterhead, with two men on...
Caister, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk; and Lowestoft, Suf- folk. At 4.59 on the morning of the 24th of February, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Gorleston station that the motor vessel Gudveig of Oslo...
The Right Reverend The Lord Bishop of Llandaff blesses Barry Dock's two lifeboats, the 52' Arun and 41' Watson Susan Ashley during a service of re-dedication and thanksgiving on Sunday, August 22, 1976, to commemorate the... - View image in PDF
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1977: Some of the present ILB crew and branch members with their training board: (I. to r.) Jim Graham, DLA, Senior Helmsman Colin Akitt, Crew Members Derek Wilson, Robert Bell, Dick Jordan and George Ritchie, and George Egdell, honorary... - View image in PDF
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.Below right: RNLI President, the Duke of Kent, after formally naming Portrush's new Severn class lifeboat Katie Hannan. - View image in PDF
with Coxswain Robin Cardwell.. - View image in PDF
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Catching the moment - Rick Tomlinson's shot of Fishguard's Trent class Blue Peter VII Photo Rick Tomlinson/Jameson's Irish Whiskey. - View image in PDF
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Open fishing boats FLAMBOROUGH COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Bridlington lifeboat station at 0918 on Thursday January 31, 1980, that the coble Renown was in difficulties one mile east of Rolston and some 13 miles south of the...
DECEMBER 9TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
About eight at night some of the life-boatmen saw a ship signal SOS by morse and fire a rocket, and at the same time the coastguard reported a vessel in distress about six miles...
0800 on a January morning. Sarah To wnsend Porritt is safely home on her moorings and the crew can disperse. On extreme left, the author, Wallace Lister Barber; second from right, Coxswain Arthur Wignall.. - View image in PDF
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