MARCH 29TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE, AND RHYL, FLINTSHIRE.
Airmen were reported to have baled out over the sea, but the life-boats found nothing. - Rewards : Llandudno, £21 13s. 6d. ; Rhyl, £27 9s....
(Above) The first 33ft Brede lifeboat to go to station, Ann Ritchie, is demonstrated to the principal guests after her naming ceremony.. - View image in PDF
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Selsey, Sussex.—18th August, 1938.
At about 4 P.M. the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the life-boat station that two women bathers were in difficulties off the West Beach, Selsey.
A moderate...
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. At 3.22 on the afternoon of the 16th August, 1961, the police informed the honorary secretary that a girl who had been bathing off Inverallochy sands had been swept out to sea and was in difficulties.
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20th De- cember. Reports of guns had been heard, but no trace of any vessel in distress could be found.—Permanent crew. Rewards, 9*..
HELP FOR SICK CHILD Galway Bay. At 6.30 a.m. on nth July, 1964, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that the local doctor needed the life-boat's help to transfer a sick child from the Aran Isles to the mainland as no other suitable...
RESCUE OF A WOMAN AND DOG Port Erin, Isle of Man. At three o'clock on the afternoon of Wednesday the llth of September, 1963, the Ramsey coastguard told the honorary secretary that a woman was stranded on the cliffs at Bradda Head. She...
JUNE 18TH. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.
During the morning four men were cut off by the tide under the Seven Sisters Cliffs, near Seaford. One of them swam to Cuckmere.
There the police informed the Newhaven...
The Life - boat William and Charles was launched in response to distress signals at about 10.30 A.M. on the 22nd December. She found the Submarine C 12 ashore and landed the crew of sixteen hands.
Later in the day the...
Aberdeen. — 10th December, 1937.
A flare and a light had been reported, but nothing in need of help could be found.—Rewards, £16 9s..