Mallaig, Inverness-shire.—At 11.0 in the morning of the 28th of December, 1951, the Post Office asked if the life- boat would take the Christmas mail to the islands of Eigg, Rhum and Canna as the regular steamer had not made its weekly call...
Guernsey ladies' guild has its own 'lifeboat', a mobile souvenir stall which attracts great interest wherever she goes. Roger Wood designed Lady Goodwill and built her with the help of other lifeboat supporters; materials were... - View image in PDF
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RHOSNEIGIR, ANGLESEY.—About 1 A.M. on the 3rd January, the barque Clifton, of Liverpool, was wrecked on Rhosneigir rocks. It being then moderately smooth, the crew remained by the ship in the hope of floating her off; but about 1 P.M., in...
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HIGH flies the spray, and landward leap The hungry savage seas, Whose white manes curl in seething hate Before the lashing breeze, That shrieks its thousand league-long self Across the spume-flecked waste, To line the coast with wrecks and...
Category: Poetry
Rhyl, Flintshire - At 12.20 p.m. on 1st October,, 1966, a small boat appeared to be in difficulties off the boathouse.
The life-boat Anthony Robert Marshall was launched at 12.50 in a fresh north westerly wind, gusting to...
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South East Division Film men rescued BRONZE MEDAL FILMING OF A STUNT for the latest James Bond film at Beachy Head, East Sussex, on Tuesday, December 9, 1986, took a dramatic turn when a 17ft outboard-powered Dory, recovering equipment from...
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Launches 74. Lives rescued 140.
OCTOBER 1ST - 22ND. - CROMER, NORFOLK. During the month both of the Cromer life-boats were launched several times and gave help to the S.S. Teddington, which had stranded after enemy attack...
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THURSDAY, 12th September, 1912.
The Rt. Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building,...
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Coxswain James Campbell of Boul- mer died on the 18th of May, 1959, at the age of 79. He first joined the Boulmer crew in 1906, was bowman for nearly a year in 1929, and was then second coxswain for ten years. He was coxswain from 1939 to...
Category: Obituaries