St Helier, Jersey. At 3.34 on the afternoon of the 12th of August, 1958, a message was received that a yacht was attempting to tow another yacht two and a half miles from St. Helier harbour.
The tow rope was seen to part on...
Walton & Frinton, Essex - At 3.25 p.m. on 3rd July, 1967, it was learnt that a dinghy had capsized a quarter of a mile off Walton pier and that another dinghy was trying to right her. The life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott, on temporary...
In Weymouth, Dorset, on 30 August 2005 RNLI lifeguards saved an elderly male who had collapsed face down in the water.
Discovering the man wasn't breathing and had no pulse, they inserted an airway, started...
three months from April to June 1956 life-boats went out 28 times to the help of vessels of foreign countries.
The countries concerned were the Argentine, Belgium, Costa Rica, Den- mark, France, Germany, Italy, Li- beria,...
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CARDIGAN.—Having received information that a vessel was in distress in Cardigan Bay, while a strong N.W.
gale was blowing, on the 7th November, the Coxswain of the Life-boat Lizzie and Charles Leigh Clare summoned the crew,...
Fishing boat sinks WEYMOUTH LIFEBOAT was asked to launch by Portland Coastguard at 0945 on Monday November 15. 1982, to go to the help of the fishing boat Amirante reported to be taking water four miles south of Portland...
SICK MAN IN TRAWLER At 11.45 a.m. on nth December, 1963,the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the pilot boat was going to land a sick man from the trawler Arctic Cavalier at 1.30 p.m. In view of the weather the life-boat crew...
WHO WE ARE—We are a group of voluntary workers, each associated with a branch or guild, who believe that the financial needs of the R.N.L.I. are urgent and that the new money necessary to meet the previous deficits and rising costs can be...
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AT their meeting last May the committee of management decided that officers and members of life-boat crews who are awarded the Institution's gold medal, the highest award which it can make for gallantry in saving life, may, like those...
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