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Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 52 Number 522 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Assistant Editor: GILL MACE Editorial Assistant: MARY GYOPARI Advertisement...
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Mary Lloyd of Carnarvon & Brigantine Rebecca, of Carnarvon
On the morning of the 19th March the schooner Man/ Lloyd, of Carnarvon, came into Fish-guard Bay, and anchored in a very exposed part of it. In the afternoon, the wind sud- denly shifted to the N.N.E., and blew a terrific gale, the sea soon...
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Holy Island and North Sunderland, Northumberland.
—Early on the morning of the 28th February the coastguard reported to the Holy Island life-boat station that a vessel was in distress in Goswick Bay. A north-easterly...
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 2 November 1993 show that so far during 1993: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 3,896 times (an average of 7 launches a day) 879 lives have been saved (an average of nearly 3 a day) More...
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Albion, of Teignmouth and Emma, of Barrow
— On the 20th February, the schooners Albion, of Teignmouth, and Emma, of Barrow, an- chored in Fishguard Bay. Being strangers, the vessels came to anchor rather too far out in the bay, and the wind having suddenly shifted to the N.N.E., and...
Minnie Flossie, of Bideford
OCTOBER 24TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At 6.22 in the morning the coastguard reported that distress signals had been seen from the auxiliary ketch Minnie Flossie, of Bideford, which had dragged her anchor and was drifting...
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Howth, Co. Dublin.—28th November.
A man had fallen over the cliffs and disappeared in the sea before help could reach him.—Rewards, £5 18s. 6d..
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Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—28th October, 1939. Flashes had been seen, but the life-boat found nothing.— Rewards, £14 18s. 6d..
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Galway Bay - At i p.m. on 30th May, 1967, the local doctor requested the service of the life-boat to take an elderly woman on Inishmaan Island to hospital.
The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson, with a crew of five and a...
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MEDICAL AID At 9.48 a.m. on 26th January, 1966, the local ferryman informed the honorary secretary that the resident doctor on the island of Jura requested assistance in conveying a sick patient from the Feolin Pier to Port...