Kilmore, Co. Wexford - At 5.30 p.m. on 20th May, 1966, the honorary secretary at Dunmore East informed the Kilmore honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties off the Conningbeg lightvessel. The life-boat Cecil Paine was launched at...
SIX COBLES ESCORTED IN NEAR GALE Filey, Yorkshire. At 9.5 on the morning of the 24th May, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that several local fishing cobles were still at sea. As the weather was becoming worse the...
Life-boat 70-002 at the Mumbles - At 4.15 p.m. on 23rd April, 1967, while rounding Mumbles Head on exercise, the coxswain of the life-boat Grace Paterson Ritchie noticed four people cut off by the tide on Lighthouse Island. There was a light...
Only RNLI supporters could find a way of feeding the swans and ducks on the Thames and collecting money for lifeboats simultaneously.
At Henley-on-Thames the branch has arranged to fill this bin with unsold loaves, kindly... - View image in PDF
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Modifications: Coxswain Kenneth Henry (I) is seen about to strike the first blow in the demolition of the old crew assembly room to make way for a new building. It is all part of a £650,000 project at Aith lifeboat station (Shetland)... - View image in PDF
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NOVEMBER 16TH. - RUNSWICK, SCARBOROUGH, AND WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
A British bomber aeroplane had been reported down some miles out at sea, and later it was reported that another bomber was down, but nothing was found by the...
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 5.15 p.m. on gth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a small yacht was hi difficulties in the Rock Channel.
The life-boat Norman B. Corlett proceeded at 5.20 in a near gale from...
Falmouth, Cornwall - At 5.3 p.m. on 7th July, 1967, it was learnt that the sailing dinghy Dolphin was missing on passage from Port Navas to Restronquet.
The life-boat Constance and Crawford Conybeare, which had launched...
Hastings, Sussex.—At 9.14 on the morning of the 13th of July, 1955, the Fairlight coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat had run ashore at Hook Ledge, Fairlight, and that her crew of two were shouting for help. At 9.35 the life-boat M.T.C...
Torbay, Devon. — At 10.15 in the morning of the 30th of March, 1952, the life-boat shore attendant reported that a ship at the mouth of Torbay had asked for a pilot. The breeze from the east-north-east was moderate, but the sea was rough and...