Four lifeboats evacuate hundreds from severe flooding Inshore lifeboats on the North Wales coast were once again called in to help with relief work when floods hit the Llandudno area on 10 and 11 June 1993.
D class...
A young solo sailor was among the selfless RNLI volunteers and fundraisers recognised by HM The Queen in this year’s Birthday Honours.
Natasha Lambert was the youngest of the seven RNLI recipients named for their...
Category: Articles
To WILLIAM G. SANDERS, on his retirement, after serving for 36J years as Coxswain of the Torbay Life-boat, a Coxswain's Certi- ficate of Service, and a Pension.
To THOMAS HAYES, on his retirement, after serving for 19 J...
Category: Awards
IT is ALWAYS pleasing to report that one of our Shoreline clubs has been actively involved in fund raising. Such a club is No 8 at Peterborough which, in conjunction with the local RNLI branch, ran a very successful SOS day in Ferry Meadows...
Category: Articles
OLD LIFEBOAT, NEW COUNTRY
Some years after I had retired as Mallaig lifeboat Coxswain/Mechanic, I discovered that my old Arun class lifeboat (pictured) had been sold to the Icelandic Rescue Service. So, after a deal of...
Category: Articles
A helping hand After leaving the River Crouch on 22 October 19951 unfortunately crossed the Swallow Tail Spit too close to the buoy at 1530, two hours before low water, and went aground.
The sea was calm and apart from...
Category: Correspondence
When You've Got to Get Through Get on the OKI Portable Phone At last! A Cellphone at an affordable price.
When you order the OKI Portable phone from Martin Dawes Communications, you not only get your hands on the latest...
Category: Advertisement
DURING the past six years the Institution has placed Motor Caterpillar Tractors at a number of Stations, where they have been successfully used, instead of horses, for launching Lifeboats off flat sandy beaches, but they are not suitable for...
Category: Articles
Helvick Head, Co. Waterford. — Shortly after seven in the morning of the 28th of July, 1949, the motor trawler Baile na n Gall was seen drifting- off Helvick Head near a rocky shore, and flying distress signals. She was known...
BIyth, Northumberland; Dunbar,'Haddingtonshire ; Buckie, Banffshire ; Lerwick, Shetland.—27th-31st January. The Russian steamer Irtysch, while bound from West Hartlepool to Leningrad had run into a severe gale and been driven north. She...