DECEMBER 24TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL, AND APPLEDORE, DEVON.
During the afternoon information was received from the coastguard that a vessel appeared to be in difficulties about five miles west-north-west of Hartland Point. A...
Rubbish recovered from the bottom of the River Cam raised £500 in sponsorship, half of which was donated to the RNLI; the sub aqua junk hunters were members of Cambridge University's Underwater Exploration Group whose haul included... - View image in PDF
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SEPTEMBER 23RD. - APPLEDORE, DEVON. The French life-boat Jean Charcot, now in the service of the Institution, was on passage from Padstow to Milford Haven, but as a strong westerly wind was blowing, with a rough sea, the life-boat was unable...
On the evening of the 19th November the steam drifter Flower o' May, of Banff, made to enter the harbour. She was returning from the English fishing grounds, and, being short of coal, had been towed about fifty miles before being cast...
Three local fishing boats, Victory, Violet, and Laurel were caught in a S.E. gale on the 24th December. The regular life-boat crew was out fishing, with the exception of the second coxswain, but a " scratch " crew were got together...
Lady Norton, a member of the Committee of Management, presented the RNLI 1977 public relations awards on the jetty of the central feature—Brighton Marina—on the first Sunday of the show. One was to members of that staunch band of lifeboat... - View image in PDF
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New Quay,Cardiganshire-At2p.m.
on 16th August, 1967, the coastguard reported that a man had fallen over the cliffs at Llangranog. As it was considered that a small boat might be of assistance the IRB was launched at 2.6 in...
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 11.36 on the morning of the 4th of January, 1958, the assistant inspector of Irish Lights told the honorary secretary that there was a sick man on board the Blackwater lightvessel. As there was no Irish...
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. — At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 12th of May, 1957, the coastguard re- ported that three canoes appeared to be in difficulties and to be making no pro- gress off Great Orme's Head light- house....
At 9.35 P.M. on the 9th January information was tele- phoned from the Coastguard at Re- culvers that a vessel was burning flares about three-quarters of a mile N.W.
from Reculvers. The vessel proved to be the barge...