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Lifeboat Services
LIFEBOAT AREA No.1 Extended Christmas WHEN the lifeboat on duty at Islay, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, launched to a coaster at 4.15 a.m. on Christmas Day, 1972, she did not return to her station until 8.30 p.m. that evening, over 16 hours...
Category: Services
St. Anne
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. At 10.55 on the night of the 18th of January, 1958, the Formby coastguard told the honorary secretary that the pilot cutter St. Anne, of Preston, was agroundbetween Lytham and Preston docks.
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St. Gerard, of Arklow
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—A fishing boat was noticed at anchor three miles north of the pier on the 8th and 9th of December, 1949, and by the afternoon of the 10th she had not moved. As the weather had worsened, and the father...
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Aberdeen, Grampian 54ft Arun ON 1050: Aug 1 Relief D class: Sept 8 D class: Oct22 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: Aug 2, 3, 10 and 12 (twice) Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: Aug 4,12, 23, 25 and 27 Aith, Shetland 52ft Arun ON 1100: Aug 13,...
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Lifeboat Services (1)
MARCH APRIL AND MAY 1993 Aberdeen, Grampian 54ft Arun ON 1050: March 14 D class: May 24 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: April 13,14 (twice), 15,28, May 24 and 31 Aith, Shetland 52ft Arun ON 1100: April 15 and May 30 Aldeburgh, Suffolk D class...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Launches on Service
Lifeboat launches on service during the months March, April and May, 1974 Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire April 13.
Aldeburgb, Suffolk March 11.
Angle, Dyfed March 15, 28, April 13 (2) and...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Services
INFLATABLE STEPS IN TO TAKE OVER TOW Heavy seas and poor conditions as D class saves three A service by Port Talbot's D class inshore lifeboat in difficult conditions has led to the award of the Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on...
Category: Services
Members of Jersey Lifeboat Guild
Members of Jersey Lifeboat Guild, pictured with the St.
Catherine's C class lifeboat. The ladies of the Jersey guild have been running a souvenir stall at the station throughout the summer and were photographed by a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
St. Helier Naming Ceremony
THE new St. Helier life-boat arrived at her station on the llth of September, 1948, and on the 14th of October her naming ceremony was held on a sunny afternoon after a morning of storm.
The station was established in 1884,...
Category: Inaugurations
Lifeboat Services (1)
Lifeboat Services March, April and May 1989 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: May 23 and 29 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: April 1 and 23 Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class: March 5, April 30, May 4 (twice), 14 (twice), 21 and 29 (twice) Aldeburgh,...
Category: Services