On the 8th April, the smack Cymro, of Amlwch, was observed with a signal of distress flying, in Moelfre Bay, during a strong easterly wind. This life-boat put off and succeeded in saving the smack's crew of 2 men. The vessel...
23rd Feb- ruary. A coble's engine failed and the two men on board were washed out of her. One was rescued from the .
shore, but the other was drowned before the life-boat could reach him.— Rewards, £7 6s....
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenihire. — 14th April. A fishing boat was seen approaching in a very heavy sea, and as there was great risk of being swamped entering the harbour, the life-boat put out, but the fishing boat turned and ran up the Moray...
The Llandudno life-boat Thomas & Annie Wade Richards. - View image in PDF
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CAPTAIN WILLIAM JAMES OXLEY, who has been honorary secretary of the Walton and Frinton life-boat station for twenty-three years, and who has been awarded the Institution's in- scribed binoculars, has been appointed a Member of the...
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Dover, Kent.—At 2.28 early on the morning of the 12th of July, 1957, the Lloyds signal station reported that a yacht was drifting off South Foreland.
At 2.40 the life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3). on temporary...
Shoreha m Harbour, Sussex.—27th June, 1939. An aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but a fishing boat rescued the pilot. The life-boat towed in the aeroplane.—Rewards, £5 2s. 6d.
(For a full account see "Shoreboat...
VELLUM FOR BEMBRIDGE COXSWAIN Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—On the 5th of December, 1947, the motor life-boat Jessie Lumb rescued eighteen men from H.M. trawler Erraid, and the coxswain was awarded the Institution's thanks on...
DURING the summer new life-boats were named at eight stations, Swanage, New Quay (Cardigan), Eastbourne, Ramsey, Barmouth, Porthdinllaen, Portrush and Newcastle (Co. Down).
Accounts of the ceremonies will be pub- lished...
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Selsey, Sussex.—At 3.20 on the after- noon of the 20th of May, 1955, the Selsey coastguard telephoned that the R.A.F. No. 19 Group had reported that a jet aircraft of the R.A.F., with a crew of two, had crashed fifteen miles south of Selsey...