The relief Tyne class lifeboat The Good Shepherd pictured when on service from Holyhead on 31 January 1990.
The lifeboat had been launched in severe gale conditions when the Irish Sea ferry St Columba suffered an engine... - View image in PDF
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. . . and Manx steamer Ben Veg meeting a force 8 gale as she left harbour in January 1966. At times during this winter's gales, seas were breaking over road and jetties right up to the head of the inner... - View image in PDF
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Troon lifeboat, the 44ft Waveney Connel Elizabeth Cargill, leaving Portpulrick in deteriorating weather one Julv morning. She had called in on passage to Holyhead for engine overhaul.
photograph by courtesy of Mr T. G.... - View image in PDF
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IN the report which has been recently issued by the General Superintendent of the Life-saving Service, for the fiscal year ended 30th June 1884, it is stated that there were then 201 Life-Saving Stations under their management, 156 being on...
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• No one could be better fitted to write Mayday! Mayday!: A History of the Guernsey Lifeboat Station than Jurat Guy Blampied, QBE, who, an RNAS seaplane pilot himself in the first world war and an RAF officer in the second, has been an...
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The bronze medal for gallantry was awarded to Coxswain William Morris for the service on March 11 ofSt David's lifeboat, the 47ft Watson Joseph Soar (Civil Service No 34), to MFV 7.
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Flood rescue has unique risks and challenges but, with specialist skills and determination, achievement against the odds is possible as our volunteers found in Umberleigh and St Asaph...
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This photograph won a first prize in the Institution's competition (See page 283). - View image in PDF
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