It was with great sadness that the RNLI learnt of the tragic loss of Keith Allday, Harbour Master and RNLI volunteer Coxswain, and Atan Massey, Assistant Harbour Master and RNLI volunteer Helmsman, at Barmouth in April this year. They were... - View image in PDF
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Fleetwood, Lancashire. At i a.m. on 3ist October, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the m.v. Peter Leigh had broken down two and a half miles east of Morecambe Bay lightvessel.
The life-boat City of...
Disabled and drifting with a fouled propeller, the fishing boat Faith Ann was in trouble in storm force winds, 50 miles off Orkney. Soon after midday on 26 April the Shetland Coastguard requested the launch of the Stromness lifeboat on a...
Philip Leigh-Bramwell, donor of the relief Waveney class lifeboat Lady of Lancashire..
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Keith Allday - Barmouth Coxswain Rear Admiral John Anthony Bell - Former President of Wellington branch Gladys Bridge - Macclesfield Branch Committee Member Dorothy MacDonald - Wells-Next-The-Sea Life Vice President Alan Massey - Barmouth...
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OCTOBER 8TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 10.15 in the morning the naval control reported that the tug H.M.S. Leigh was ashore on the Nore Sands. The weather was very foggy, with a light north-west wind and a smooth sea. The motor...
At least a peck of pickled onions picked. Not by Peter Piper but by a worthy rival in Mrs V. J. Anderson who over the last few years has worked tirelessly, peeling and pickling her way to raising £600 for Fishponds branch, Bristol. She... - View image in PDF
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Salcomhe, Devon. — 27th October, 1937. A ketch was making water rapidly, but was towed in by a tug.— Rewards, £15 18s..
23rd October. A ketch had caught fire, but her crew made land in their own boat, while the life-boat was out looking for them.—Rewards, £16 17*..