Four lifeboats evacuate hundreds from severe flooding Inshore lifeboats on the North Wales coast were once again called in to help with relief work when floods hit the Llandudno area on 10 and 11 June 1993.
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WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.—About 8 A.M. on the 5th May a north-easterly gale suddenly sprang up, accompanied by rain and sleet and a rough sea, whereupon several fishing cobles, which had left the harbour earlier in the morning, attempted to return....
BALLYWALTER, Co. DOWN.—On the 9th December the wind suddenly became squally, increasing to a gale from the W.
off the land. A large open boat, manned by two men and a boy, and having but one broken oar on board, was swept...
ON the balustrade in front of the headquarters of the Institution stands a half model of a life-boat which is also a collecting-box. When the box was opened on the morning of the 18th of April 84 farthings were found in it.
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Governors Shoreline Storm Force Thank you As the New Year begins, the number of RNLI members now stands at a record 197,000. We would like to say thank you to every one of you for supporting the RNLI in 1991 - and look forward to your...
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PETEBHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.—While the Coxswain of the Life-boat George Pickard was working in the Life-boat house during the afternoon of the 1st April, information was brought him that a vessel had gone ashore at Scotston Head. After...
At 9.30 P.M. on the 26th September a vessel was ob- served making signals of distress on the Barber Sands. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden were immediately assembled and the boat launched. She found the steam drifter Boadicea,...
LIFE-BOAT AND TUG IN HARD TOW THE Falmouth, Cornwall, life-boat on 8th August, 1972, following the sighting of a redflare at about 3.40 a.m., saved a schooner and 10 people.
The wind was south westerly, force 6-7, with a...
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SCARBOROUGH.—The dandy Vivid, of Scarborough, bound from West Hartlepool for Woodbridge with coal, being caught by a gale from the E.S.E. and a very heavy sea off Plamborough Head, on the llth March, returned to Scarborough and attempted to...