JUNE 2 3RD. - PORT ASKAIG, HEBRIDES.
About five in the afternoon of the 22nd of June a request was received from a doctor at Colonsay, for the life-boat to take a man, who was dangerously ill with appendicitis, to Oban for...
MAY 18TH. - GALWAY BAY. During the afternoon an urgent request for the help of the life-boat was received from a doctor to take him to a serious pneumonia case on Inisheer Island. No other boat was available, and at 4.50 the motor life-boat...
AUG. 12TH. - HOWTH, CO. DUBLIN.
The civic guard had reported that a man was in the sea and was urgently in need of help.
The life-boat put out with Mr. H. McCracken, a member of the committee, on board,...
JULY 29TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. At 8.32 in the morning the Cromer coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed in flames four miles south-east-by-east of Cromer. A light southerly wind was blowing, with a smooth sea. The No. 1 motor...
MARCH 25TH - 26TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE, AND PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE. SOS flashes had been seen by the coastguard about six miles east of Cilan Head on the evening of March 25th, and at 9.45 the Pwllheli motor life-boat Ministre...
The announcement of two new classes of lifeboat, the Trent and Severn on 10 December 1992, made the year something of a landmark for the RNLI. The introduction of even a single lifeboat class, let alone two, is an achievement far greater...
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JULY 16TH. - ABERDEEN. A vessel had been reported on fire, but no vessel in need of help could be found. - Rewards, £12 4s. 9d..
JUNE 4TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT, AND SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 1.15 A.M. a message was received at Bembridge from the Foreland coastguard, that an aeroplane had come down in the sea south-west of the coastguard hut at Hayling Island. A...
Littlehampton, April 26, 1986: Lavinia Duchess of Norfolk, pictured soon after she had named Littlehampton's new Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat, Blue Peter I. The lifeboat, one of five recently funded by the BBC's highly... - View image in PDF
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