Injured boy RAMSEY COASTGUARD telephoned Peel lifeboat station at 1943 on Tuesday April 20, 1982, asking for immediate help for a boy who had fallen over the cliffs at Eairy Cushlin. Maroons were fired and the crew assembled. The Neil...
(Left) The RNLI flag made by Gnosall branch members flies proudly at The Horns, saluted by Geoff Threadgold, a long-standing Shoreline supporter and now branch honorary secretary.. - View image in PDF
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HUNA, CAITHNESS-SHIEE.—During a gale of wind from the W.S.W., and an exceedi ingly rough sea, on the 20th January, the Life-boat W.M.C. was launched, at 1 A.M., to the assistance of the fishing-boat Mar- garet Ounn, of Wick, which was in a...
Cromer, and Sheringham, Norfolk.—On the morning of the 2nd April the fishing boats John Robert and White Rose, of Cromer, and Little Madge, of Sheringham, each with a crew of two, put to sea in fine weather. The weather changed, and at about...
DUNCANNON, WATEHFORD HARBOUR.— On the 3rd March, at about 1.15 P.M., a vessel was seen to be striking heavily on the Bar. The Life-boat Richard and Ann Warner was got out, but owing to the state of the tide, and to the wind being in a S.S.E....
Fig 3 (left): The first FSB prototype fitted with aluminium alloy decks and wheelhouse. The after cabin superstructure, also aluminium, can be seen waiting in foreground.. - View image in PDF
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APRIL 27TH. - WALMER, KENT. Shortly before 6 A.M. a Kingsdown boatman reported that a steamer was ashore in Old Stairs Bay, Kingsdown. There were patches of fog, with a light south-westerly wind blowing and a smooth sea. The motor life-boat...
MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.—On the 25th January a strong gale was experienced from N.N.E., accompanied by a heavy sea, very cold weather and snowstorms, and the crew of the Life-boat Star of Hope were on duty all night, as there were three vessels at...
BROADSTAIRS.—On the 25th November, the Samuel Morrison Collins Life-boat was taken to Margate Roads in tow of the Ramsgate Harbour steam-tug Aid, during a strong N.N.E. gale and heavy sea, when she succeeded in saving the crew of 5 men from...
THE list of honours bestowed on those associated with the Life-boat Service in the New Year Honours for 1957 was:— C.B.E.
Alderman T. J. Patterson, chairman of the Carrickfergus branch.
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