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From the first Lifeboat Saturday street...
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Launches 49 Lives rescued 31 NOVEMBER 2ND. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.
At 8.33 in the morning the Hoylake coastguard reported that the naval authorities wanted a life-boat to go out and stand by a vessel high and dry on the...
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Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun: July 31 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: June 25, July 18, 20, 28, 29 and 31 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: June 7, July 18, 20, 24, August 1,6 (twice), 12 (twice), 18 and 31 Aberystwyth, Dyfed D class...
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In The Great Gale of November 23Rd 1938. - View image in PDF
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On the night of the 3rd May, or rather at 1 A.M. on the 4th, a very gallant service was rendered by the crew of the Caistor life-boat, in rescuing, under circumstances of much danger, the crew of the schooner Trial, of Poole, 7 in number. On...
A bedraggled but unharmed Molly in the arms of Walmer crew member Derek Brown - and showing a new use for a lifeline!. - View image in PDF
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ON the 18th September a very successful procession took place at Ashington, and as a result of it and of a ball which followed, a sum of over £174 was raised for the Institution. Ashington is a min- ing village, and the Day was...
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Surf ski rider HM COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of St Agnes ILB station at 1626 on Sunday, July 17, 1977, that a surf ski rider was in difficulties off Porthtowan, about 3'/4 miles south west from St Agnes. The DLA...
AMONGST the many noble deeds of heroism by our Life-boats' crews and others during the recent fearful gale, perhaps none is more deserving of being held up for public admiration and sympathy than that of the Captain of the s.s. Cyprian,...
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DIED AFTER FALL Howth, Co. Dublin. At 5 p.m. on I2th June, 1964, the gardai told the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen down the cliff at Balscadden and could be seen in the water. The tide had been ebbing for two hours and there was a...