Howth, Co. Dublin - At 6.35 p.m. on 30th April, 1966, the Garda informed the motor mechanic that two boys were stranded at the foot of the cliff at Castena Bay. The fire brigade had been unable to reach them. In the absence of the honorary...
AT 7.15 on the evening of the 12th of June, 1960, the police at Bo'ness learnt that a boat had capsized two hundred yards east of the Hen and Chickens buoy off Culross in the Firth of Forth. There was no boat available in Bo'ness...
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In a candid letter, sailor and RNLI supporter John Sinclair explains why he had to be rescued twice in the early hours of 22 March
'I anchored my 6m yacht Blue Dragon in Moelfre Bay...
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THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 154 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to May 31st, 1953 - 78,220 Disaster at Fraserburgh MONDAY the 9th of February, 1953, was a fine sunny day...
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Three Men Rescued From Marie Ii Thank The Llandudno Coxswain. - View image in PDF
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ST. ANDREW'S, FIFESHIRE.—A new lifeboat and transporting-carriage have been placed at St. Andrew's, and a Branch of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has been established there. This boat is on the selfrighting plan adopted by the...
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Thursday, 15th September, 1927.
Sir GODFREY. BAROTG, Bt., in the Chair, Ik-ported the receipt of the following special contributions : — £ s. d.
Civil Service Life- boat Fund (per Mr. H. A. Clark) in...
Category: Committee
Cliff face helicopter lift LONOHOPE honorary secretary was informed by the Coastguard at 2352 on December 20, 1974, that the Belgian trawler Lans was ashore on the north side of Tor Ness and required immediate assistance. Longhope lifeboat,...
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT TORBAY DEC. 16TH. - TORBAY, AND SALCOMBE, DEVON. In the early afternoon the schooner Henrietta, of Truro, with a crew of seven men, was carried by the strong spring tides and a gale from the east-north-east to the...
Robert Moore, committee member and honorary treasurer of Lowestoft station branch for 30 years. He was awarded a silver badge in 1981..
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