Mr David F. Aubrey, honorary secretary of the Port Talbot ILB station, writes: "The Mayor on December 8, 1972, invited the crew for tea in his parlour, and during the afternoon lie agreed to sign up for Shoreline and gave the project... - View image in PDF
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Contents 3 Lifeboat Services 4 Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards 9 Volume XLIV XT 1 Central Appeals Committee 16 Number 452 Naming Ceremony: Augustine Courtauld, Poole 16 Operation Lifeboat 17 Family Profile by Joan Davies...
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The Queen, accompanied by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I-, Commander F. R. H. Swarm, O.B.E., R.N.V.R. (right), and Mr. C. G. Rickett, president of the Leander Club, Henley, disembarking from The Royal British Legion Jubilee at Henley on 17th... - View image in PDF
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On the 4th August a severe gale from N.N.W. burst over this coast, and the fishing fleet, which did not return the previous evening, when the weather became threatening, was caught in the gale. The lugger Betsey Ann, of Port Gordon, N.B.,...
RAMSGATE.—On the 2nd March, at 10.10 P.M., signal guns and rockets were fired by the Gull Lightship. The Vulcan steamtug and Bradford Life-boat went out, and were informed that a large flare light had been seen on the sands. They steered in...
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—At 9.30 A.M. on the 21st February the vessel referred to above, the s.s. Martello, of Hull, was observed from Caister, and the crew of the Life-boat Govent Garden assembled and launched their boat. They found the Winterton...
On the afternoon of the 24th September the life-boat coxswain saw a small yacht crossing the Outer Sand. A strong S.S.E. gale was making, with a heavy sea and rain squalls. The coxswain kept watch on the yacht. He saw a sail carried away by...
BALLYWALTER, Co. DOWN.—On the 11th January, at 10.30 P.M., the passenger-ship Lough Sunart, of Glasgow^struck on Skulmartin Eeef. The night was clear, with light wind and smooth sea. Signals of distress were shown from the vessel, and the...
BARMOUTH, NOETH WALES.—At noon on the 27th November The Jones Oibb Life-boat was launched, Captain LA PEIMAUDAYE, E.N., District Inspector of Lifeboats, who was at the station on a visit of inspection, going out in her, to the assistance of...
The coxswain of the Life-boat Beauchamp, while on the watch at 3.30 A.M., on the 16th September, saw the sidelights of a vessel which was apparently stranded on the Barber Sand. About ten minutes afterwards signals of distress were shown;...