Beaumaris, Anglesey - At 2.37 p.m. on nth August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that as a result of a freak storm a number of craft participating in the Conway yacht club regatta required...
All in a day's work...
Eastbourne crew's first aid examination was interrupted on 1 August by an urgent message over the VHP radio from the Dutch yacht Stresze. requesting medical assistance some ten miles SE of...
On the bar TWO RED FLARES sighted on the south side of Portmadoc Estuary, near and inside the bar, were reported to the honorary secretary of Pwllheli lifeboat station by Coastguard Porthdinllaen at 0035 on Thursday, September 1. The wind...
Newhaven, Sunday December 13: Soon after midday two calls were received in quick succession. A gale, gusting above force 10, was blowing from south south east; the spring tide was in the first hour of the ebb and seas in the harbour and at... - View image in PDF
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Newhaven, Sunday December 13: Soon after midday two calls were received in quick succession. A gale, gusting above force 10, was blowing from south south east; the spring tide was in the first hour of the ebb and seas in the harbour and at...
Coxswain David Clemence of Ilfracombe (South West Division) joined the lifeboat crew in 1954 and was second coxswain for three months in 1972 before being appointed coxswain in the same year.
In 1981 he was awarded a framed... - View image in PDF
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SEPTEMBER 14TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 5.55 in the evening a message was received from a call-box at Westcliff that men could be seen clinging to the mast of a yacht which had sunk, close to the Loway Buoy. A strong squally...
All in a season's work RNLI Divisional Inspector Colin Williams gives a round up of all things operational this Spring in the island of Ireland Our crews experience everything that the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean can muster, as...
At 11 A.M. on the 25th July during a moderate N.E.
gale the Coxswain of the Life-boat May- hew Medwin observed a vessel in distress in Peel Bay. The crew of the Life-boat were assembled very smartly and the boat launched....
Margate, Kent.—At 6.25 in the even- ing of the 1st of June, 1952, the coast- guard telephoned that a yacht needed help four miles to the north of the North-East Spit Buoy, about ten miles north of North Foreland, and at 6.35 the life-boat...