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Injured and stranded on rocks at the bottom of a sheer cliff: for two fishermen there seemed to be no route to safety. But RNLI lifeguards and lifeboat crew found one …
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A Spitfire Aeroplane
NOVEMBER 30TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE.
During the afternoon several Spitfire aeroplanes were flying near Barmouth, and at 3.40 P.M. the life-boat coxswain saw one of them dive into the sea.
Twenty...
A Small Rowing Boat
JULY 9TH. - PORTRUSH, CO. ANTRIM.
The motor life-boat T.B.R.H. was launched at 2.10 in the afternoon at the request of the naval officer in charge, Londonderry, to go to the help of a small rowing boat of Nagilligan, which...
Fishing Boats (1)
NEWBIGGIN.—The fishing-boats went to the fishing-ground as usual about 4 o'clock on the morning of the 22nd November, but they had scarcely shot their lines when a strong gale sprung up suddenly from the E.N.E., which necessitated...
Gleaner, of Milford
On the 30th October, at 3 P.M., the schooner Gleaner, of Milford, •was "wrecked beneath Clay Castle, near the entrance of Youghal Harbour. It was blowing a heavy gale at S. The Life-boat William Beckett of Leeds was launched at 3.45,...
Mrs Elsie Farr
Mrs Elsie Farr. honorary life president of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts' Society and widow of Grahame Farr. Mr Farr was honorary archivist of the LBES and after his death she took over the task of providing information from the archives and...
Category: Obituaries
Christian and Charlotte, of Peterhead
The life-boat at St. Andrew's, 1S.B., saved the crew of 4 men of the sloop Christian and Charlotte, of Peterhead, which had stranded off the entrance to the harbour.
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
AT the annual meeting of the Committee of this Fund, held on the 17th of January, and presided over by Mr. "W. H. HAINES, Chief Clerk of the House of Lords, Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Honorary Secretary, reported that the number of...
Category: Meetings
West Wind
Dover, Kent.—At 8.25 on the evening of the 17th of June, 1956, the Sandgatecoastguard rang up to say the auxi- liary yacht West Wind needed help three miles east of South Goodwin lightvessel. The life-boat Southern Africa put out at 8.45 in...
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BOYS RESCUED Exmouth, South Devon. At 9.30 a.m.
on 2ist March, 1965, the police at Dawlish informed the honorary secretary that three boys had been cut off by the tide at the Parson & Clark rocks near...