New Brighton, Cheshire.- At 10.15 on the night of the 27th of July, 1954, the Superintendent of Wallasey Ferries reported that a large pontoon beneath the New Brighton landing stage had severed its securing bolts and was adrift. It was a...
TO LIGHTVESSEL Wicklow. At 6.45 p.m. on 2ist June, 1965, Irish Lights Office asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would bring ashore a member of the crew of the Codling Bank lightvessel as his mother was seriously ill. This was...
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 9.5 on the evening of the 13th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a boy had fallen over the cliffs at Horseshoe Bay and had been seriously injured. At 9.11, when the life- boat Jesse...
Ox Sunday the 27th of July. 1952, a service was held in the Church of the Holy Spirit, at Rye Harbour, to cele- brate the centenary of the first record- ed rescue, in August 1852, by the Rye Harbour life-boat, known at first as the...
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All inquiries concerning YLA matters should be addressed to: Mr. Alasdair Garrett, Secretary, Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Association, 29a Castle Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 ITT.
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This boat stationed at Queenscliff, Victoria, was built at Port Adelaide in 1926, after designs of the Institution, and her engines and fittings were supplied by the Institution.. - View image in PDF
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Deck chair weather for the guests at the naming of the Mersey class Sealink Endeavour by HRH The Duke of Kent at Hastings on 21 September. (Photo Tony Denton). - View image in PDF
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Can-can girls were popular entertainers at a French Connection evening, staged by the Middelsex forum at the end of November - raising nearly £3,000 for the RNLI.. - View image in PDF
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At 9 A.M. on the 18th January, at which time it was blowing hard from the southward, the s.s. Urania, of Swansea, bound from that port to Newry, went ashore north of this port on the North Bull Bank, and the same Life-boat promptly proceeded...