Ballycotton, Co. Cork - At 3.15 p.m.
on 9th January, 1968, the coxswain was informed that the local fishing boat Three Boys with a crew of twowas in difficulties in Ballycotton bay.
The life-boat Ethel...
WOMAN TO HOSPITAL At 12.30 p.m. on 2yth August, 1965, the local doctor requested the use of the life-boat to take a woman patient to Rossaveel on the mainland. As no other suitable boat was available the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson put...
At 6 A.M. on the 10th February signals of distress were observed on the North end of the Barnard Sand. The wind at the time was blowing a strong breeze from the S,W. and the sea was rough. The No. 2 Life-boat, St. Michael's, Paddington,...
APRIL 1991 W, Softley, the last surviving crew member of the Brancaster lifeboat, the station having closed in 1935..
Category: Obituaries
THE Institution has received a gift of £43 5s. from the Union Castle Mail Steamship Company. It was the result of an auction on board the Warwick Castle of a cigarette-tin engraved by the captain..
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Deaths In the past few months a number of lifeboatmen well known on the coast have passed away.
Ex-Coxswain Harold J. Hayles, B.E.M., who retired from the Yarmouth, I.o.W., life-boat in September, 1971, died in...
Category: Obituaries
Clovelly, Devon.—At 9.40 on the night of the 30th of August, 1948, the Croyde coastguard rang up to say that two men had been cut off by the tide and were on a ledge near Seal Rock, Baggy Point. He said he would guide the life-boat to the...
Julie Unite from Perth got the shock of her life earlier this year when she found out that she had won first prize in the 1999 RNLI National Car Draw.. - View image in PDF
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.—At 2.10 P.M. on the 7th February a tele- gram was received from the Coastguard, stating that eight of the cobles belong- ing to Flamborough were endeavouring to get to the North Landing, and that they were in great danger owing to the...