Trapped on cliff FOLLOWING A 999 CALL, HM Coastguard informed Coxswain Griffith Jones of Porthdinllaen lifeboat station at 2253 on Tuesday, August 31, 1976, that a boy was trapped under a rock at Porth-y- Nant. The coxswain informed his...
MARCH 1998 Mr Cyril Smith, vice president of the Wellington branch. Mr Smith joined the commtttee in 1975 and was box secretary from 1979 to 1988. He was awarded a statuette in 1990..
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ABERSOCH, CARNARVONSHIRE. — While the wind was blowing, with the force of a whole gale to a storm, from W.N.W. to N.W., with terrific squalls and a very heavy sea, on the 12th Jan. last, signals of distress were exhibited by the schooner...
Mrs Val Temple, a member of Norwich ladies' guild for over 20 years. Although confined to a wheelchair she carried out house-to-house collections for the guild and arranged various fund raising events..
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The Missions to Seamen.
" At the Sign of the Fly ing Angel." By G. A. Gollock. (Longmans, Green & Co. 5s. net.) IT was 107 years ago that Sir William Hillary, in his Life-boat Appeal, wrote of our seamen that...
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Zodiac, the best inflatable in the world.
Zodiac is Number One. Built by the oldest and best known inflatable manufacturers in the world, Zodiac inflatables confirm their pedigree, as soon as the going gets...
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Zodiac, the best inflatable in the world.
Zodiac is Number One. Built by the oldest and best known inflatable manufacturers in the world, Zodiac inflatables confirm their pedigree, as soon as the going gets...
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Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 53 Number 527 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES CUE RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Editorial Assistant: MARY GYOPARI Advertisement Manager: BARBARA...
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BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE.—The crew of the Life-boat placed here by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION not being satisfied with their boat, and having expressed a strong desire that they might be furnished with another one, the Institution has...
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The yacht Sea Time was running out of fuel, 18 miles from shore. She had been battling gale-force conditions for 16 hours on 9 September 2008 when Llandudno’s Mersey class lifeboat Andy Pearce was launched. A lifeboat crew member went...
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