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Porthcawl, Glamorganshire - At 4.20 p.m. on ist May, 1966, the crew of the IRB heard a police radio message that four youths were stranded on a rock. The IRB was launched at 4.21 in a light southerly wind and a moderate ground sea. It was...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
JOHNSHAVEN, KlNCARDINESHIRE. The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently formed a new Life-boat es- tablishment at Johnshaven, near Montrose, for the service of fishing-boats which are frequently placed in imminent peril when...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches. 1st May to 31st July, 1939
Greater London.
Life-boat day was held throughout Greater London on May 23rd. The amount raised was £8,132, an increase of £1,734 on 1938 and the largest sum for over twenty years.
Presentation...
Category: Branches
The Life-Boats of the United Kingdom
LXX. HUNSTANTON.—Licensed Victualler, 34 feet by 7J feet, 10 oars.
A distinction should be made between old and new Hunstanton; the latter, commonly known by the name of Hunstanton St. Edmunds, is situate about a mile south...
Category: Articles
Wraysbury Lake Sailing Club
Wraysbury Lake Sailing Club has traditionally held a series of three days of dinghy racing in aid of the RNLI. but last year, getting more ambitious, it staged a regatta during the whole of August Bank Holiday weekend. There were 60... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Storms and Wild Water
Storms and Wild Water
By Dag Pike
Review by
Carol Waterkeyn
This well-illustrated book brings storms at
sea to life.
Have you ever wondered how storms...
Category: Articles
Resolute
On the 8th April the Ketch Resolute of Newcastle-on-Tyne with four men on board stranded while attempt- ing to enter North Sunderland Harbour during a violent N.W. gale. When the vessel struck, a local coble proceeded to her assistance with...
Ardente
— The Life - boat Frien Walch was launched in a heavy S.E. gale on the afternoon of the llth December to a French schooner, which was dragging her anchor and drifting ashore in Weymouth Bay. A tug endeavoured to tow the Life-boat to the...
Fishing Boats (1)
BridUngton, Yorkshire.—At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 27th of November, 1953, during bad weather, the coast- guard assembled the coastguard shore life-saving team to man the piers in case any fishing boat entering the harbour needed help....
Life-Boats Given By Corporate Bodies: A Correction
IN the October issue of The Life-boat was an article with this heading, and among the corporate bodies mentioned was Lloyd's, donor of a life-boat which bears its name.
It .should have been said that Lloyd's not...
Category: Donations