Station-by-station lifeboat launches for June and July 1997 Aberdeen. Grampian Arun: Jun 13 and Jul 8 D Class: Jul 8 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: Jun 8, 29 and Jul 24 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: Jun 1 (three times), 8, 16, 19,22,29.30,...
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Bottom left Lifeboat crew member m black oilskins, sou'wester and Captain Ward's cork lifejacket. - View image in PDF
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No. 7 Life-boat Area DIFFICULT RESCUE FROM ROCK THE Pwllheli life-boat and the Abersoch ILB, stationed on the Caernarvonshire coast, answered a call on 25th June, 1972, when two men in a motor boat were reported...
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The Atlantic 75 class lifeboat. Walters Lifeboat launching off Ter Heyde beach. The KNRM Caterpillar Challenger Tractor of some 260bhp, runs on rubber tracks and while towing an Atlantic on a Large U frame, can achieve speeds of 25kph on the... - View image in PDF
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On the 8th January at 7.15 A.M., the Harbour-master at Ramsgate received a telegram from the coastguard officer at Harwich thus worded: "Large ship ashore on Shipwash: Liverpool tug going out, but got no Life-boat." The Ramsgate...
South Eastern Division Twenty rescued CAPE COAST, a 2,650 ton Panamanian cargo vessel, broadcast on Channel 16 VHP at 0327 on Wednesday January 10 that she was in distress and taking water in her engine room; she was 2.2 miles from Nab Tower...
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Bottom Left: Sumner's Thames Class Lifeboat. - View image in PDF
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A Service by the Bomber Motor Life-boat.
"From the calamity of shipwreck, no one can say that he may at all times remain free, and whilst he is now providing only for the safety of others, a day may come which will...
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Friday 27 October 1916 started with a rescue and ended in tragedy – one of the worst in RNLI history. It is a story of courage,
sacrifice and loss. 100 years on, a lifeboat town remembers the crew who never came home
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PEOPLE seeing lifeboats at sea for the first time have been heard to express surprise that they are so small. A lifeboat is indeed a small vessel. It has to be because a high proportion of rescues are carried out near rocks or sand banks...
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