Lytham St. Annes.—At six o'clock in the evening of the 22nd of June, 1952, a resident telephoned that a yacht was aground on the south side of the Riddle Estuary. It could be seen that she was dried out close up to the South Training...
MARCH 25TH - 26TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE, AND PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE. SOS flashes had been seen by the coastguard about six miles east of Cilan Head on the evening of March 25th, and at 9.45 the Pwllheli motor life-boat Ministre...
On the 25 May 1996 a group from Flamborough, East Yorkshire, travelled to the Historical Dockyard, at Chatham to view the lifeboat collection.. - View image in PDF
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Fairey Marinteknik & R.N.L.I A SUCCESSFUL COMBINATION m The Cowes Shipyard has a long and proud history associated with the "Royal Lifeboat Institution": As early as 1929/30 the...
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A helicopter from the US Coast Guard cutter Dallas carried out an air-sea rescue demonstration with Poole's Brede class lifeboat Inner Wheel in Poole harbour on 2 June 1994.. - View image in PDF
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THE Institution's decision to acquire a 44-foot life-boat of the kind now operated by the United States Coast Guard was a direct consequence of the international life-boat conference held in Edinburgh in June, 1963. At the conference the...
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AUG. 12TH. - HOWTH, CO. DUBLIN.
The civic guard had reported that a man was in the sea and was urgently in need of help.
The life-boat put out with Mr. H. McCracken, a member of the committee, on board,...
MAY 18TH. - GALWAY BAY. During the afternoon an urgent request for the help of the life-boat was received from a doctor to take him to a serious pneumonia case on Inisheer Island. No other boat was available, and at 4.50 the motor life-boat...
THE TIDE WAS HIGH for the RNLI on September 26, bringing lifeboat people from round the coast, and many inland cities, towns and villages as well, to join with racegoers for this year's Ascot Charity Race Day. The six 'maroons',...
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