Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. — At 10.25 on the night of the 1st of Septem- ber, 1955, the P'ormby coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht needed help three and a half miles west of Lytham pier.
At eleven o'clock...
APRIL 1ST. - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.
At 1.30 P.M. a message was received from the Wyre Lighthouse that a ship’s lifeboat needed help. A moderate W.S.W. wind was blowing with a slight sea. At 1.40 P.M.
the...
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 8.24 on the evening of the 9th of March, 1956, the harbour watchman reported that he had seen flares to the southward. A man was missing in the local fishing boat Nyria, and at 8.33 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put...
An old age pensioner has sent five shillings to the Institution. He wrote that he had been rescued by the Gorleston life-boat in 1884.
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William Cottier BEM, coxswain of Ramsey lifeboat from 1952 to 1972. He was awarded the British Empire Medal in 1971..
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. . . to a lifeboat Torbay's inshore lifeboat was called out to pluck the girl from the rocks and take her across the bay to Haldon Pier.. - View image in PDF
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Arbroath, Angus.—On the 16th of December, 1955, the local pilot boat put off with a pilot to warn a vessel not to attempt to enter the harbour in the bad weather, but the pilot boat broke down and was towed in. At 2.30 in the afternoon the...
THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has sustained a great loss by the death, on the 27th November last, of the late Captain CHETWYND, who had been a devoted and enthusiastic officer of the Committee for rather more than fourteen years....
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Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire - On 30th April, 1969, as the life-boat was about to launch on exercise, the coastguard reported that a fishingvessel appeared to be in difficulties three miles north west of Porthdinllaen point. The life-boat...
The ladies' life-boat guild of the Isles of Scilly organised a walk during the national sponsored walk period and it proved a great success, raising about £350. Two ways which brought in the most money were: Mrs. Leatherbarrow, wife... - View image in PDF
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