RESCUE FROM ROCKS At 8.15 p.m. on 24th May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the local life-saving apparatus team was on its way to the Little Orme because two young men were stranded. At 8.30 the life-boat The Lilly...
Engine failed MEMBERS OF REDCAR ILB CREW, Standing by in the boathouse on Thursday morning, June 10, sighted, at 1000, a red flare beyond Saltscar Buoy some three miles east of the ILB station.
The ILB was launched at 1005...
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford - At10.10 a.m. on 28th November, 1969, a report was received that a member of the crew of the m.f.v. Westmorland needed urgent medical attention. At 10.30 the life-boat R. Hope Roberts slipped her moorings in a...
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Girvan, Ayrshire - At 11.30 p.m. on 14th December, 1966, the lighthouse keeper on Pladda was reported to be ill.
The life-boat was asked to convey him to hospital. The life-boat St. Andrew (Civil Service No. 10) slipped her...
Our man in Towcester Despite suffering a stroke some 10 years ago, wheelchair bound Colin Baldry remains as the RNLI's 'man in Towcester'. Colin, pictured here with Mrs Dora Gamble on Towcester flag day last year, does not get... - View image in PDF
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FEBRUARY 1 7 T H . - P O R T A S K A I G , ARGYLLSHIRE. On the 16th February a request was received by telephone from a doctor and the minister on the Island of Colonsay for the help of the life-boat to bring a sick woman to Islay, whence...
FEBRUARY 5TH and 6TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. At 9 A.M. information was received through the coastguard that a vessel was ashore south of Barra Island, and the motor life-boat Lloyd’s was launched at 10 A.M. Half a gale was blowing from...
FEBRUARY 8TH. - ST. HELIER, JERSEY.
At 10 A.M. news was received from a fisherman that a French fishing boat was ashore on the rocks about one mile S.E. of the island. A light northerly wind was blowing with a moderate sea...