An RNLI team travelled to Bangladesh in March to help set up the country’s first lifesaving club. And, on 16 April, club member Mohammed Abdul Sukkur saved his first life, rescuing a drowning tourist from a rip...
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DUNGARVAN, Co. WATERFORD. — 1.20 P.M. on the 8th January, the Lifeboat William Dunville was launched, a signal of distress having been shown by the fishing cutter John. It was found that the boat had lost her mast, which in falling had...
OCTOBER 4TH. - PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSIIIRE.
At 8.40 P.M. the Abersoch coastguard reported that the R.A.F. at Penrhos had seen flares eastwards of St. Tudwall’s Island, at 9 P.M. that an aeroplane was down in the sea, and at...
BIRTHDAY HONOURS Among the awards announced in the 1985 Birthday Honours list were: QBE: E. C. B. Corlett, chairman and managing director of Burness, Corlett and Partners, a member of the RNLI's technical consultative committee since...
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Long Search THE STERN TRAWLER Anmara and her crew of three were reported overdue from Scarborough on the evening of May 21, 1987 and a search was organised by Humber Coastguard, to begin at first light on the following day.
Margate, Kent.—At 2.16 in the afternoon of the 13th of December, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a motor boat, with two boys on board, appeared to have broken down and to be drifting seawards. She was one and a half miles...
AUGUST 11TH. - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.
At 11 P.M. the naval officer in command asked for the life-boat to go out to a vessel aground on Pilling Sands. She was the trawler River Ythan, of Fleetwood, loaded with fish and...
In December Sally Jane, the third child of Mr. Anthony Warnock, the mechanic of the Seaham life-boat, and Mrs. Kathleen Warnock, was baptised aboard the local life-boat.
With Coxswain Arthur Farrington at the wheel, Mr....
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Blackpool and Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire ; Llandudno, Caernarvon- shire ; and Rhyl, Flintshire. Between three o'clock and 3.15 on the afternoon of the 9th of October, 1958, the hon- orary secretaries and coxswains of the life-boat...
Tow in strong gale A VESSEL DRIFTING DANGEROUSLY close to land at Caldrine Bay was reported to HM Coastguard on the afternoon ofJanuary 10. The Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Campbeltown lifeboat station at 1300. Of the...