THE 29th July last was "Life-boat Sunday" at Bangor Cathedral, sermons being preached by the Rev. T. LLOYD KYFFIN, M.A., Rector of Llanfaes, Angle- sey, formerly Honorary Secretary at the Cemaes Life-boat Station, and the col-...
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Thank you to all 131 entries in the Lifeboat winter flash fiction competition. We were delighted so many of you were inspired to put pen to paper. There was a clear winner – a favourite in the office and with flash fiction writer Eleanor...
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A Caithness fundraiser tells us what it’s like to be part of the RNLI family
What do you do?
I’m deputy chairman of the Wick RNLI Fundraising Branch. I’ve been involved for over a decade. Wick’s quite a small...
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THE memorial to the seventeen Life- boatmen of Rye Harbour—who lost their lives on 15& November, 1928, when the Life-boat, returning from service in a whole gale, capsized as she appeared to be coming into the harbour-mouth with a...
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ON 30th May, at Whitby, five boys, from eight to seventeen years of age, were coming into the harbour, just before seven in the evening, in a small pleasure boat. There was a light breeze blowing and the sea was smooth, but there was a swell...
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During a thick fog on the 13th February the s.s. Epidauro, of Lusinpiclo, whilst bound from the Mediterranean to Swansea in ballast, stranded in the vicinity of the Overton Cliffs, about one mile to the west of Port Eynon Point.
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Arranmore, Co. Donegal.—About three o'clock on the afternoon of the 29th of February, 1956, the Malin Head radio station reported that the motor vessel Greenhaven, of Newcastle, had wire- lessed that her engine had broken down five and a...
Walton and Frinton, Essex. — Just before midnight on the 21st of June, 1949, the coastguard reported informa- tion from the pilot cutter Bembridge that a steamer had struck the sunken wreck of the Fort Massac, about one and a half miles...
Long Search THE STERN TRAWLER Anmara and her crew of three were reported overdue from Scarborough on the evening of May 21, 1987 and a search was organised by Humber Coastguard, to begin at first light on the following day.
Five lifeboats in long search for lost fishermen Newcastle, Co. Down's, Oakley class lifeboat Jane Hay and Portaferry's Atlantic 21 Blue Peter V took part in long searches for the two crewmen from a fishing boat Silver Quest which...