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BBC Wales Are Filming a New Drama Based

Date: Spring 1981

Volume: 47

Issue: 476

BBC Wales are filming a new drama based on the novel Ennals Point by Alun Richards.

The novel is about life in a fictitious lifeboat village and the six part television series is being filmed at The Mumbles. Philip Madoc... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

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Date: March 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 419

At 3.40 p.m. on I5th October, 1966, a patient required urgent hospital treatment.

The life-boat John Gellatly Hyndman with the patient and a nurse on board proceeded at 4.15. The tide was ebbing. The life-boat reached...

Carol, of Ipswich

Date: September 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 421

Bembridge, Isle of Wight - At 1.24 a.m. on 3Oth April, 1967, news was received that distress flares had been sighted three miles from Bembridge lookout.

The life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched at 1.47 in a light south south...

Snowdrop

Date: December 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 422

Dunbar, East Lothian - At 7.30 a.m.

on 15th June, 1967, it was learned that the motor fishing vessel Snowdrop which had grounded on Tynningham sands could not be refloated despite attempts by local fishing boats. It was...

Pace

Date: December 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 422

Swanage, Dorset - At 6 p.m. on i6th July, 1967, news was received that the yacht Pace was broken down and becalmed and in danger of being swept on to the rocks at Anvil Point. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 6.10. It was one hour after...

Emerald Isle

Date: September 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 413

Portrush, Co. Antrim. The coastguard reported at 1.57 a.m. on 23rd June, 1965, that a fishing boat was flashing her navigational lights in Portstewart bay. The life-boat Lady Scott (Civil Service No. 4) was launched at 2.15 with the bowman...

St.Alban's and District

Date: Autumn 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 494

With the RNLI advertisement '£5 buys him a pair of boots' in mind, St Alban's and District branch borrowed a set of protective clothing to highlight the need to raise funds. Branch member Alan Edmunds donned the clothing... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Malcolm Wood Second Officer of Townsend Thoresen's Baltic Ferry

Date: Winter 1988

Volume: 50

Issue: 503

Malcolm Wood, second officer of Townsend Thoresen's Baltic Ferry walked 200 miles for the Harwich lifeboat. The sponsored walk from St Bees Head in Cumbria to Whitbv High Light in Yorkshire look II days and raised over il ,000. Malcolm... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Two Canoes

Date: Spring 1992

Volume: 52

Issue: 520

Four rescued as canoes capsizeArran's inshore lifeboat C521 Prince of Arran rescued four people and recovered two canoes on 2 February following a call for assistance from Clyde Coastguard.

At 1145, the coastguard...

De Ruyter

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

JANUARY 10TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.

At 2.8 A.M. the coastguard reported a ship ashore in Cymeran Bay, near Rhosneigr.

A N.E. breeze was blowing, with a smooth sea. It was bitterly cold. The motor life-boat...