At the Hewas Inn, Sticker, Cornwall, a giant whiskey bottle was set up by landlord and landlady Peter and Jo Shoults which collected £134 before it was ceremoniously smashed open by television personality Mike Whitmarsh; the money was... - View image in PDF
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DURING September life-boats went out on service 68 times and rescued 25 lives.
TWICE AGROUND Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 5.50 in the evening of the 1st of September, 1951, the coastguard reported that the yacht Alethea II, of...
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Coxswain John Fox (right) and his son Michael were both in the crew of Shoreham Lifeboat Dorothy and Philip Constant when, on August 5, Albin Ballad and her crew of three were rescued during a south westerly gale force 9. Coxswain Fox, who... - View image in PDF
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Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Aberdovey, Merionethshire August 15th.
June 30th, July 4th and 9th.Abersoch, Caernarvonshire Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire Arran (Lamlash), Buteshire Atlantic College, Glamorganshire Bangor, Co. Down...
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First man to greet the Atlantic heroes, Captain John Ridgway and Sergeant Chay Blyth when they stepped ashore at Kilronan, on the Aran Islands, on 3rd September, 1966, after their 92 day voyage of 3,000 miles, was Father Joseph McNamara, the... - View image in PDF
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The RNLI were beneficiaries from an open day at Billingsgate Market, London, when the public were invited to watch demonstrations and buy species offish that they would not necessarily find at their local fishmongers. Here Ronald Nichols is... - View image in PDF
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Cromarty. At 8.30 on the evening of the 8th of September, 1959, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser with one man on board was missing between Chanonry Point and Inverness. The life-boat Lilla Marras, Douglas...
PwIIheli, Caernarvonshire.—On the afternoon of the 25th of August, 1948, a south-west gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and at 4.10 the Abersoch coastguard asked the life-boat to search for a sailing boat which had been seen off...
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 1.45 on the afternoon of the 10th of June, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a small boat had capsized off Port Eynon Point. Her three occu- pants had been thrown into the sea.
The...
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Aith, Shetland Aldeburgh, Suffolk Amble, Northumberland Angle, Pembrokeshire Appledore, North Devon Arklow, Co. Wicklow Ballycotton, Co. Cork Barra Island, Outer Hebrides Barrow, Lancashire Barry Dock, Glamorganshire...
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