On .the night of the 30th this life- boat again put off. The ship Lillies, with 1,600 tons of coals on board, be- longing to St. John's, New Brunswick, and bound from Liverpool to Bombay, showed signals of distress off Fleetwood, when...
JUNE 20TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT. At 2.55 A.M. information was received from the Dover naval authorities that a torpedoed steamer was lying helpless two miles east of D u n g e n e s s . A f r e s h E . N . E . w i n d w a s blowing, with a...
On the follow- ing day, the Greek brig Calamidas was in a very perilous position in Newquay Bay, during a strong N.N.W. gale, accompanied by a very heavy sea. The Coast Guard attended with the rocket apparatus, but the ship was too distant...
The ketch Trojan, of Jersey, bound from London to Morlaix, Brittany, was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands on the 14th July soon after 2 A.M. The Life-boat Francis Forbes Barton was launched in response to signals, and on reaching the ketch the...
Flying the RNLI flag Three members of Port Talbot lifeboat crew represented the Institution at the Annual National Service for Seafarers at St Pauls Cathedral on 19 October 1994.
Ronald Jones, Peter Thomas and Robert Parker...
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DUEING 1936 help was given by foreign life-boat services to 45 British vessels.
Three of these services were by Belgium, 1 by Germany, 2 by Holland, 3 by Iceland, 1 by Sweden, and 35 by the United...
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A FIRST-CLASS IRB rescue, carried out in near extreme conditions for an IRB, has earned Mr. Idris Evans, aged 23, the helmsman, and crew members Mr.
Trevor Evans and Mr. Peter Evans, both aged 18 of the New Quay,...
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Ten rescued TOLD BY a member of the public at 1309 on August 10, 1974, that a dinghy being sailed singlehanded had capsized in Port Eynon Bay and her helmsman was having trouble righting her, J. Walter Grove senior crew member of Horton and...
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