LIFE-BOATS AS AMBULANCES Lerwick, Shetlands.—At about 2.55 on the afternoon of the 8th of March, 1947, the Medical Officer of Health for the Shetlands, telephoned that a woman was seriously ill at Bardister, and must be taken at once to...
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‘Excited, happy and proud of himself’
That’s how 7-year-old Jim – often quite a shy boy – felt after taking part in a beach-based activity session with RNLI lifeguards and Swim England last summer. Jim is just one of...
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Rescue of two cut off by tide Tenby's D class lifeboat was called out to rescue two young men who were cut off by the tide at Waterwynch Point on 23 August.
The sea was rough but the crew members displayed skill,...
MAY 10TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At 10.55 at night the naval base reported through the coastguard that an American soldier and a member of the Auxiliary Territorial Service had been cut off by the tide on Ynys Meibion rocks...
The annual report of the Civil Service and Post Office Life-boat Fund for 1969 discloses that the total subscription received last year amounted to £28,623. This was a record. While the increase constituted arrears from the previous...
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At 12.12 a.m. on I9th August, 1966 it was reported that a small dinghy with one occupant was overdue from a fishing trip.
There was a calm sea. It was two hours before low water. The life-boat The Baltic Exchange proceeded...
Injured boy A MESSAGE from a doctor was received by Criccieth ILB station at 1135 on Tuesday July 31, 1979. asking that a 12-year-old boy, injured when he fell from the rocks at Black Rock, should be taken off by inshore...
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Search success AT 1820 ON FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1987, Tyne Tees Coastguards were alerted by the mother of one of two men aboard the Hartlepool-based fishing boat Sea Fox that the vessel was six hours overdue at the east coast...