NEW BRIGHTON.—The steam Life-boat Queen left her moorings at 6.50 P.M. on the 2nd January, while a whole gale was blowing from N.W., with squalls and a very heavy sea, in response to signals of distress which had been shown in the direction...
AUGUST 9TH. - PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
At about 4 P.M. information was received that a steamer making for St. Tudwald’s Road was in need of help.
A S.W. breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth. The...
NOVEMBER 12TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. The S.S. Eaglescliffe Hall, of Montreal, had been reported drifting, and the life-boat put out twice, but she could not find her. The news came through later that the crew had been rescued by...
In the first twenty-one months of war life-boats have rescued 3816 lives.
They have rescued more lives in the twenty-one months of war than in the last ten years of peace. They have rescued 42 lives every week..
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JANUARY DURING January life-boats were launched on service 39 times and rescued 45 lives.
FISHING BOAT TOWED FROM NEAR ROCKS Newcastle, Co. Down.—At 10.50 on the night of the 1st of January, 1957, the Kilkeel coastguard...
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Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. — On the 30th of July, 1949, the life-boat Lloyd's was on passage from Sandbank, Argyllshire, to her station, after survey.
At 1.50 in the afternoon she saw signals of distress about...
Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—About nine o'clock on the morning of the 6th of October, 1950, the Irish Lights Com- missioners asked that the life-boat should go to the Coningbeg Lightvessel to land a man whose wife was danger- ously ill. At 9.50...
WINTERTON.—On the morning of the 25th December signals of distress were observed from a schooner ashore about 3 miles north of Winterton. The Ann Maria Life-boat was thereupon launched, and rescued the crew, 6 in number, from the vessel,...
The rough weather abilities of the Severn class helped coxswain Hewitt Clark save the life of five men last November. In a service which won him a Gold Medal the lifeboat's strength was tested to the extreme when massive seas hurled her... - View image in PDF
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The Duchess of Kent, who made the award presentations on behalf of her husband, the Duke of Kent, President of the R.N.L.I., congratulating Second Coxswain Ernest Guy (St. Mary's) after the award of first bar to his bronze... - View image in PDF
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