JULY 28TH. - GALWAY BAY. A flying boat was overdue, but was later sighted in Clew Bay. The life-boat went as far as Cleggan, but returned on learning that the flying boat had been located. - Rewards, £15..
AUGUST 29TH. - ABERYSTWYTH, CARDIGANSHIRE, AND PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. A landing craft had been reported in difficulties with her engine broken down, but she anchored, and the life-boats were not needed. - Rewards : Aberystwyth,...
JANUARY 16TH. - WALMER, KENT. The American Liberty ship James Harrold had been in collision with the S.S. Ramon Stern, had caught fire and been abandoned by her crew. The sea was smooth. The life-boat searched for five hours without finding...
NOVEMBER 7TH. - WALMER, KENT. The American steamer Arthur Riggs had been damaged in collision with the S.S. Egton, but the Arthur Riggs did not need help and the Egton could not be found. - Rewards, £31 5s. 6d..
Tynemouth’s Severn class all-weather lifeboat Spirit of Northumberland is pictured towing a disabled fi shing boat to her home port of North Shields on 11 August. Trudie May’s skipper made an emergency call after his salmon nets got caught...
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Lifesaving is not just about pulling people out of the water. Saving lives by changing the attitudes and behaviour of children and young people has always played a vital role in the RNLI’s work.
As early as 1860 the...
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Coxs vain Heary Blogg broadcast a life-boat appeal us the "Week's Good Cause", in the Home Service of the B.B.C., oa I5th. Mareh. There were 6759 replies amounting to £4,457: 2: i..
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In three and a half years of war our life-boats have rescued 5100 lives, and our life-boatmen have won 177 medals for gallantry. Twenty-eight lives have been rescued every week since the war began..
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Coxswain Murdo Sinclair, of Barra Island in the Outer Hebrides, has been awarded the silver medal for taking the life-boai 4o miles in a southerly gale and rescuing fifteen lives from a steamer which had been wrecked under the cliff* of Skye...
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The Institution has made rewards to seven people who went out in two fishing boats from North Berwick to the help of an aeroplane. In one boat was the owner, his wife, a policeman and a chemist's apprentice; in the other a fisherman, a...
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