It was a cold and blustery August bank holiday when the annual life-boat flag day was held in Rhyl this year. A further handicap was the lateness of the bank holiday - fewer people were in the town. The outlook for fund raising was poor,...
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Fire dramaCoordination between the lifeboat and the Navy was the key to the successful operation to save a blazing Spanish trawler. Fire had broken out at around 3pm on Saturday, 27 January in the accommodation section of the ship, which had...
The 35-HP Clayton Agricultural Tractor Used For Launching A Life-Boat In The Trials at Hunstanton. - View image in PDF
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Rock pool FALMOUTH COASTGUARD telephoned the deputy launching authority of St Agnes lifeboat station at 1817 on Friday August 6, 1982, reporting a youth trapped on rocks at Porthtowan swimming pool, about 3'/2 miles south west of St...
(left) The RNLI was 166 years old on March 24 and Storm Force member Peter Williams sent this special birthday greeting.. - View image in PDF
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Islay, Hebrides.—At 3.20 on the morn- ing of the 16th of March, 1957, the Kilchoman coastguard telephoned that attempts were being made to refloat the trawler Sethon, of Fleetwood, which had gone aground fifteen days earlier in the Sound of...
Laying wreaths, on September 7th, I938. - View image in PDF
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