In these 39 months of war our life-boats have rescued 4886 lives. That is more lives rescued in three years and three months of war than in the last 14 years of peace..
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St. Ives, Cornwall - At 10.45 a-mon 18th March, 1967, a French fishing vessel was reported to be in difficulties half a mile north west of St. Ives Head.
The life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was launched at 11...
OCTOBER 26TH. - WHITEHILLS, BANFFSHIRE.
At 5.46 in the evening the coastguard reported that a small boat appeared to be disabled two miles north of Banff. A moderate south-easterly breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The...
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Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 11.28 on the night of the 30th of April, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a local resident had reported a wireless message from the motor fishing vessel Maid of Honour, of Lerwick. She had broken down off Brethren...
Also on that day, the brigantine Qirondin, of Bordeaux, stranded during a strong gale from the S., and in a heavy sea, on the Par Sands, on the Cornish coast. The South War- wickshire life-boat was launched, and suc- ceeded in rescuing the...
Dungeness, Kent.—At 1.50 P.M. on the 21st May a local boatman reported a small motor yacht in difficulties. A moderate W.S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The yacht was the Hyperion, of Harwich. She had been taken in tow by a Dutch...
.Below right: RNLI President, the Duke of Kent, after formally naming Portrush's new Severn class lifeboat Katie Hannan. - View image in PDF
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Catching the moment - Rick Tomlinson's shot of Fishguard's Trent class Blue Peter VII Photo Rick Tomlinson/Jameson's Irish Whiskey. - View image in PDF
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