THE South Holland Life-boat Society was so pleased with the result of its inquiries as to the success of the NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION'S Steam Life-boats that it recently instructed Messrs. J. I. Thornycroft and Co., of Chiswick,...
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DIFFICULT RESCUE FROM ROCK THE Pwllheli life-boat and the Abersoch ILB, stationed on the Caernarvonshire coast, answered a call on 25th June, 1972, when two men in a motor boat were reported overdue.
The search started when...
LONG NIGHT SEARCH Hastings, Sussex. At 7 p.m. on 9th February, 1964, the mechanic told the honorary secretary that an angling dinghy was overdue, and it was decided to launch the life-boat. There was a gentle north-westerly breeze with a...
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 153 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to March 31st, 1951 - 77,296 Two Irish Rescues by Night Wicklow and Dunmore East AT half-past...
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Angle and St. David's (Pembrokeshire).
On 25th November, at 2.35 in' the afternoon, a message was received by the Tenby Coastguard from the Fishguard Radio that the steamer Molesey, of London, of 4,000 tons, was...
AT 2.15 ih the morning of 27th January a message was received at the Penlee life-boat station from the coast- guard that a ship appeared to be on fire near Gear Rock in Mounts Bay.
Twenty minutes later the motor life- boat...
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Llandudno, Caernarvonshire; Rhyl, Flintshire; Beaumaris and Moelfre, Anglesey - At 4 p.m. on 6th May, 1968, the coastguard informed the Llandudno honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser had broken down one mile west of Great Ormes Head...
LIFE-BOAT SERVICES.—During the late October storms the Life-boats belonging to the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION were successful in saving the lives of many persons on board shipwrecked and foundering vessels. The Pembrey (South Wales) Life...
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About nine P.M. on the 1st December, the barque Bayadere, of Rouen, parted from her anchors, and struck on the rocks near the lighthouse, at Holyhead.
It was blowing at the time a most terrific gale from the N. The Princess...
During a southerly gale and in a heavy sea, on the 3rd Jan., 1869, the Yarmouth beachmen observed a vessel apparently on the Scroby Sands. The large life-boat, the Mark Lane, was at once launched and taken in that direction, but when near...