MARCH 29TH. - SENNEN COVE, AND PENLEE, CORNWALL. A message was received at Sennen Cove at 7.33 in the morning that a vessel needed help four miles north-north-west of Pedn-men-Dhu. A strong south-south-west wind was blowing and the sea was...
On the llth June the Danish schooner Sylphiden, of Nakskov, at anchor in St. Austel Bay, drove into shallow and broken water; when, hoisting a signal of distress, the Institution's life- boat at Polkerris, near Fowey, proceeded to her...
Les Coe (left) receives a certificate signed by the RNLI Chairman and Chief Executive at a party in his honour at the Downs Sailing Club,Walmer. - View image in PDF
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HOLYHEAD.—On the 5th November, at about 9.40 P.M., signals of distress were shown by the s.s. Rydal Hall, of Liverpool, which had stranded on the Clipera Bocks during a gale of wind and a heavy sea.
The Life-boat Thomas...
WESTON-SUPER-MARE. — As the S.S. Welsh Prince, of Newport, was leaving the pier at Weston-Super-Mare for Bristol, at 6.30 on the evening of the 22nd September, with upwards of forty passengers on board, and a crew of six men, a hawser by...
(Right) South Africa: Hubert Davies, one of the National Sea Rescue Institute's 10m lifeboats, in Table Bay.. - View image in PDF
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OCT. 15TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At.
2.15 A.M. the coastguard telephoned the coxswain that he believed a vessel was burning flares. The coxswain went to the coastguard look-out and was satisfied that they were distress signals....
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THE FISHERMAN
Sam Cully was fishing off the coast of County Down on 18 September when his boat started sinking.
The conditions were rough – there...
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The Duke of Edinburgh Chatting With The Life-Boat Crew When He Visited Plymouth On 22Nd July. - View image in PDF
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