MINEHEAD, SOMERSETSHIRE. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat Station at Minehead, there being sufficient men available for manning and launching the boat, in order to strengthen the Life-boat Service on the...
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Mr. A. G. Owen, of Rhosneigr, in contributing a note about the establishment one hundred years ago of a life-boat station at that small fishing village, said: 'The days of the life-boats being dotted all round the island have now passed....
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In July seven members of Aylesbury Green Park sub-aqua club completed a two-day bike ride and raised over £965 - half of which was donated to the lifeboats.
The event was a joint fundraising effort between the diving... - View image in PDF
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The fishing-skiff, Fairy Queen, of Campbel- town, was caught in a heavy N.E. gale on the evening of the 7th February, and was not able to make the harbour.
During the whole of the next day the gale increased, and the skiff...
LIFEBOAT GROUNDS TWICE ON GALE-LASHED SANDBANK Four rescued in gale from stranded yacht The Director of the RNLI, Lt Cdr Brian Miles, has written to the honorary secretary of Lytham St Annes lifeboat station, Frank Kilroy, to congratulate...
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SCALED THE CLIFFS At 4.40 p.m. on 8th September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat which had left Laxey at n a.m. was missing, with two adults and two children on board. There was a moderate sea with a...
OXE of the notable Life-boat events of 1930 was the great increase in the amount contributed to the Institution by Scotland. In a year in which of the eight districts into which Great Britain and Ireland are divided for the purpose of the...
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Barrow, Lancashire, and Maryport, Cumberland.—During the morning of the 16th January, 1938, a man reported to the Whitehaven police that he had seen rockets off the coast between Seascale and Sellafield, about twentyeight miles by sea from...
On the bar THE SERVICE BY FWLLHELi lifeboat and Criccieth ILB to the yacht Zircon during the early hours of September 1, 1977, was reported in the winter 1977/78 issue of THE LIFEBOAT. Zircon, with four people on board, had run aground...
The Brix- ham Life-boat, Betsy Newton, rescued the crew of four men from the Plymouth ketch Vesta during a whole N.E. gale on 12th January. The Vesta lost one of her cables and drove perilously near the rocks. The crew were rescued just in...