PORTHDINLLAEN.—A sudden gale of wind sprang up at about 4 P.M. on the 7th August, accompanied by a heavy cross sea, and four schooners were observed with signals of distress flying.
The George Moore Life-boat was...
Coxswain Thomas Bowen, who died in December last at the age of seventy- seven, was for over twenty-five years an officer of the Cardigan life-boat, and for nineteen of those years its coxswain.
He retired in 1920 on account...
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Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—Early in the evening of the 25th February Lloyd's agent telephoned that a wireless message had been received from s.s. Invella, of Glasgow, reporting that one of her crew was...
Contents ««--Q-* a, Penlee Formal Investigation 221 Volume XL VIII Lifeboat Service. 222 Number 4o4 Happy people: rescued two and saved boat 228 The naming of RNLB Ann Ritchie, Oban 229 Chairman: American Connection: the naming of...
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f s -T 4- /a-rrt'C Notes of the Quarter, by Patrick Howarth .. .. .. .. .. 3 Summary of Accounts for 1976 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 4 TT i -*r-r -r T Lifeboat Services .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 6 Volume XLV -v T i Annual Awards 1976 12...
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Contents RNLI News. 183 Volume XLIX Number 492 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLI.
Director and Secretary: REAR ADMIRAL W J GRAHAM CB MNI Lifeboat Services.
Annual General Meeting and presentation of awards...
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An E.S.E. gale suddenly sprang up on the 28th March while the small herring coble Thankful Arthur, of Filey, was at sea, and as the heavy sea showed every sign of increasing, the Life-boat Queens- bury was launched to her assistance, and...
The Islay, Inner Hebrides, life-boat circling the upturned hull of the barge Isle of Gigha three miles south of Chuirn Island on 11th November, 1966.. - View image in PDF
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LIFE-BOAT HERSELF IN DANCER Arbroath, Angus.—During the after- noon of the 23rd of April, 1947, a moderate south-easterly gale was Wow- ing, with a very rough sea and the motor life-boat John and William Mudie was launched at 2.40 and...
Margate, Kent. At 4.9 on the afternoon of the 21st of November, 1958, a request was received from the Chief Superinten- dent, Trinity House, for the life-boat to land a sick lamplighter from the Tongue lightvessel. The life-boat North...