Llandudno, Caernarvonshire.—During the afternoon of the 13th of December, 1953, a fishing competition was held in Llandudno Bay, but the weather deteriorated and all but two of the small boats returned to the shore.
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RESCUE OF YOUTHS IN DINGHIES New Quay, Cardiganshire. At 10.12 on the morning of the 14th August, 1962, the coastguard reported that two rubber dinghies were drifting out to sea half a mile off Aberayron. At 10.40 the life-boat St. Albans...
INDEX TO THE LIFE-BOAT STATIONS OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. (Thefigures refer to the numbers of the life-boats detailed on pages 42-53.) Aberdovey, Merioneth, 167. Drogheda, Ireland, 265. Littlehaven,...
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IN 1950 fifty-five golf clubs held competitions in aid of the Life-boat Service, as compared with sixty in 1949, and the Institution received from them £275, which was £2 more than in 1949..
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Seventy-one golf clubs held life-boat competitions in 1943 and they raised £301..
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MCH. 24TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. During the morning a heavy sea was rising, with a strong and increasing south-easterly wind. Two small fishing boats were out and shortly before noon it was reported that one of them was showing a...
DUBIXG the war our life-boat men were condemned by some people because they rescued those, who (in the opinion of certain folk) should have been left to perish. Some of these angry people wrote letters to the papers to ask why the men who...
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SIX RESCUED FROM TWO BOATS Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 3.45 on the afternoon of the 6th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that four children were in difficulties in a rowing boat off Proud Giltar. Twelve minutes...
The Padstow Screw Steam Life-Boat "James Stevens No 4" Going To The Aid of A Vessel In Distress. - View image in PDF
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