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Award of a Gold Watch

Date: June 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 388

MR. DAVID EVANS, who is second mate of the tanker Pass of Balmaha, has been presented with a gold watch and scroll by the Bulk Oil Steamship Co. Ltd., in recognition of his gallantry in diving overboard while the ship was in the Firth of...

Category: Awards

The Re-Opening of Penarth Lifeboat

Date: Summer 1981

Volume: 47

Issue: 477

The re-opening of Penarth lifeboat station and the handing over of the new D class lifeboat took place on the Esplanade on Saturday August 8. Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston, a deputy chairman of the Committee of Management, first received... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Burry Port

Date: Autumn 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 486

This is what to do with your lifeboat after she has come out of service for the winter: push her for 12 miles along the road between Burry Port, Dyfed, and Loughor, pass a few pubs on the way and with the sponsorship collected in each pub... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Bravest Act of Life-Saving

Date: June 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 404

THK Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a life-boat crew in 1962 has been won by Bowman John Kerr, of Blyth, for his part in the rescue of the crew of two of the motor vessel Paullgate on the 18th November. A...

Category: Awards

Rac

Date: Spring 1997

Volume: 55

Issue: 540

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Category: Advertisement

Drifting in the dark

Date: Winter 2009

Volume: 61

Issue: 590

Two 13-year-olds found themselves drifting out to sea in the dark on the evening of 7 September.

Wearing only Summer clothes, they thought they had secured their inflatable dinghy close to the shore near Hove but later...

Category: Articles

Olympic Dreams

Date: Spring 2010

Volume: 61

Issue: 591

RNLI Lifeguard Kerry Blewett has been selected to train for the 2012 Olympics as part of Team GB. Kerry entered a UK Sport and English Institute of Sport talent recruitment drive to find female athletes to take up sprint...

Category: Articles

Climbing Crew

Date: Winter 2010

Volume: 61

Issue: 594

Two 12-year-old boys were out exploring the north Devon coastline when they got cut off by the tide 10m up a cliff.

Several passers-by reported the boys’ predicament to the Coastguard, which requested the launch of...

Category: Articles

Elizabeth Brooks

Date: November 1877

Volume: 10

Issue: 106

HOWTH, DUBLIN BAY,—The Life-boat Clara Baker was launched on the evening of the 6th August, and proceeded to the assistance of the brigantine Elizabeth Brooks, of Larne, which was ashore, with strong breeze blowing from S.E., on the Baldoyle...

Two Fishing Smacks The James and The Atkins

Date: August 1880

Volume: 11

Issue: 117

PORTHDINLLAEN.—Signals of distress were shown from some vessels in Carnarvon Bay on the night of the 25th January. The crew of the Life-boat George Moore quickly assembled, launched their boat, and proceeded in the direction of the light,...