Holyhead, Anglesey. At 10.30 p.m.
on 25th October, 1965, the coastguard reported that the Irish ship River Avoca required a doctor to attend and bring ashore a member of the crew suffering from severe and continuous stomach...
Friday, 23rd June, 1922.
The Right Hon. The EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., in the Chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :— CIVIL SERVICE LIFE-BOAT FUND £ s....
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Galway. Early on the morning of the 23rd September, 1961, three men from Inishere Island rowed nine miles in an open boat to Kilronan to summon a doctor to attend a sick person on the island. Telephone communications with the island had...
Ramsgate., Kent.—At 5.15 on the evening of the 15th of June, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a motor cruiser, flying a distress signal, seemed to be drifting. At 5.22 the life-boat Mary Scott, on temporary duty at the station, left her...
On the morning of the 5th October the steam trawler Ocean Prince, of Aber- deen, outward bound from Aberdeen, was making for Stromness Harbour with damaged boiler, when she ran aground on the Point of Ness, near Stromness. The vessel and...
Ramsey celebrated its 150th anniversary on June 17, 1979, with a service of thanksgiving and re-dedication of its lifeboat, James Ball Ritchie, and the lifeboathouse.
Photograph by courtesy of 'Isle of Man... - View image in PDF
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100 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT February 1891 CIVIL SERVICE LIFEBOAT FUND At the annual meeting of the committee of this fund, held on the 16th January last, and presided over by Mr.
Charles G. Turner,...
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Children from the class of Mrs Harrison at Bodmin County Primary Infants' School acted out the Grace Darling story for the rest of the school and, after making a "mile of pennies", they collected over £52 the Grace Darling... - View image in PDF
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New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 16th of March, 1957, the life-boat coxswain received a message from the New Brighton stage- man saying that the hopper Gamma had reported that she had seen two bovs drifting in a small...
Confused? All those in lifejackets in this picture are not lifeboatmen—in fact, it is quite obvious that they are not even men. They are some of the staff of the Liscard, Wallasey, branch of Marks and Spencer who have helped to raise £1... - View image in PDF
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