As readers of The Life-Boat are aware, the Institution is always glad to receive sums for the provision not only of Lifeboats, but of the many indispensable accessories, which vary from a slipway, costing sometimes as much as, and more than,...
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A fierce westerly gale swept the Mersey during the early hours of the 27th August, and at about 4 A.M. the large dredger Walter Glynn, belonging to the Docks and Harbour Board, was capsized near the North Wall, Liverpool. She had a crew of...
Whitby, and Scarborough, Yorkshire.— On the morning of the 23rd of Novem- ber, 1955, the Whitby fishing fleet were still at sea in worsening weather, and it was thought advisable that a life-boat should stand by the harbour bar to escort...
MAY 16TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
The life-boat crew were called out at 8.30 in the morning to stand by, as a heavy gale was blowing from the northnorth- east, with heavy seas breaking across the harbour entrance,...
At 8.50 in the morning of 6th November the Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Arthur R. Dawes was launched in charge of the Second Coxswain to stand by the local motor cobles. A moderate, but in- creasing, S.S.E. breeze was blowing, with a...
The annual harbour fete of North Stinderland ladies' guild broke all its previous records h raising just over £10,000. As a result of the fete, donations, coffee mornings, bridge drive, a handsome donation from the local Rotarv... - View image in PDF
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50 Years Ago From the pages of THE I.IFF.BOAT, April 1938: Rescue in a Hurricane A Silver-Medal Service at Tenby.
ABOUT 4.30 in the morning of 15th January, 1938, the coastguard at Tenby, Pembrokeshire, reported that a...
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At 12.45 A.M.
on the 16th January, during an ex- ceedingly thick fog, signals of distress were heard, and a message was received stating that a vessel was ashore to the north of the town. The Honorary Secretary of the...
Workington, Cumberland. — On the 23rd of September, 1954, the S.S.
William, of Drammen, Norway, arrived off Workington and wirelessed that she had a sick man on board. She asked for a doctor, and at 4.15 the life-boat...
Criccieth, Gwynedd, is the first RNLI lifeboat station to take delivery of an Arancia inshore rescue boat.
She is on an extended trial to assess her capabilities, and has been called on for a number of rescues, including a...
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