Newbiggin's new Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat was named Kirklees by Donald While on Saturday July 3. She was funded through the generous support of residents in the Kirklees Metropolitan area, Huddersfield, and among the 500 or... - View image in PDF
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CLOUGHEY, Co. DOWN.—The Coastguard ' watchman haying reported a steamer on the North Rock on the 7th April, 1897, the Life-boat Faith was launched at 5.30 A.M., and prooeeding to the vessel found her to be the s.s. Rannoch, of and from...
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THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 131 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 37 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 30th, 1936 - 64,872 The Last of the Life-boat Horses.
WHEN the...
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Padstow, Cornwall.—At 12.45 on the afternoon of the 16th of September, 1955, the Trevose Head coastguard rang up to say that a message had been received from St. Eval that an R.A.F. airborne life-boat was in diffi- culties off Bude. An...
On November 19, 1933, Longhope lifeboat went to help Icelandic trawler Geysir of Reykjavik, grounded on Torness Point, Pentland Firth. Among 15 people rescued was 19-year-old Sigridur Johannesdottir, daughter of one of the boat's owners.... - View image in PDF
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EIGHT motor life-boats have been named during 1938, two on the coast of Devon, at Salcombe and Appledore, two on the Irish coast, at Arklow and Dun Laoghaire, and the other four at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Whitby, Yorkshire, Peel, Isle of...
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Regarding the photograph on page 11 of the Spring 2002 issue of the Lifeboat, showing the crew of the Charles Biggs lifeboat, there are two errors in the caption. They are the crew of the Lytham lifeboat: the St Annes boat Laura Jane was... - View image in PDF
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Eleven lifeboats in biggest ever Cardigan Bay searchCrew from nine lifeboat stations were united in a search for a missing power boat at Cardigan Bay. The Coastguard coordinated an extensive search involving 11 lifeboats, a rescue helicopter...
NOW that the membership of the Y.L.A. is approaching 10,000 it is hoped to form social branches of the Association in different parts of the country. These will not be fund-raising branches but will provide an opportunity for members in a...
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DECEMBER 12TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. During the evening a strong southerly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea, and a pilot launch and a port control launch, both of Cork, were swamped and sunk in Cork Harbour when on their way to put...