Z-BOATSto the rescue. .
Extensively used by the R.N.L.I, for inshore rescue work, the inflatable RFD-GQ PB-16 Z-Boat is capable of carrying 10 people and supporting many in excess of that number. Being inherently buoyant,...
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MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.—The Life-boat Star of Hope, was launched at 11.15 A.M.
on the 27th January, in a strong gale from the S.W. and a heavy sea, to the assistance of the .brigantine Warree, of and from Dundalk for Liverpool,...
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION SPORTING APPEAL Distinctive trophies are available to sporting clubs wishing to raise funds for the Institution by organising competitions anywhere in Great Britain and Ireland.
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She was landed there and taken to hospital by ambulance.. - View image in PDF
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YACHT REFLOATED ON RISING TIDE Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 5.35 on the evening of the 20th April, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht was aground on the Shingles bank at the entrance to the Solent. The...
OUT ALL DAY Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 11.40 a.m. on i8th June, 1965, the coastguard reported that the Royal Navy frigate H.M.S. Blackpool, which was anchored off Blackpool, had the Fleetwood sea cadet harbour launch alongside, badly damaged....
BOY WAS TRAPPED At 8.50 p.m. on roth September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a boy was trapped 60 feet up the cliffs near Heddons Mouth. It was high water with a smooth sea and a gentle westerly breeze. At 9.12 the...
St. Andrews.
In the middle of the night of March 8th the steam trawler Loch Long, of Aberdeen, went ashore in a heavy snow squall on the reef of rocks known as Balcomie Briggs. A gale was blowing; the sea was rough ; and...
On her way to Edinburgh for a week's exhibition, in April 1930. - View image in PDF
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Early in the morn- ing of the 13th February twenty-two of the fishing-cobles put to sea in moderate weather. At about daybreak the wind backed into the E.S.E. and increased to a strong gale bringing up a very heavy sea. Ten of the cobles at...