Fishermen saved after 20 hours in ferocious blizzard It took a joint effort by the Mallaig and Kyle of Lochalsh lifeboats, RAF and coastguard helicopters and local fishermen to locate two friends who got lost while out whelking on 27...
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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Lifeboatman leaps aboard runaway speedboat An incident on 29 July 1995 in which a speedboat owner fell overboard while retrieving his brother from the water left one of them injured by the boat's propeller and with their boat careering...
Over a Thousand Pounds made by a Life-boat Film.
IN 1930 British International Pictures made a film called " The Lady from the Sea," in which the principal inci- dent was a life-boat rescue. Part of the scenes...
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FROM the 22nd to the 29th of June, 1960, the B.B.C. broadcast each evening a half-hour programme in the Welsh Home Service. The composite title of the series was Over the Waves, the narrator being Mr. Wynford Vaughan- Thomas. The six items...
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Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—At four o'clock in the afternoon on the 23rd of February, 1950, information was re- ceived from St. Combs and the coast- guard that a small fishing boat was in distress. At 4.13 the life-boat John and Charles...
Rad Hart-George and Nick Pleydell-Bouverie's journey began with an epic vision: to cycle the entire British coastline, visiting every lifeboat station along the way and raising money to help save lives at sea. And this Summer, they...
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Another valuable contribution to life-boat history has been made by Grahame Farr in his latest volume in the Wreck and Rescue Series. This tells the story of the South Devon life-boats (Wreck and Rescue on the Coast of Devon, D. Bradford...
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Bridlington Life-Boat Returning To Harbour After Escorting In Three Keelboats Caught By Rough Seas. - View image in PDF
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Effective co-operation A FRESH WEST by southerly breeze gusting to near gale, force 7, was blowing along the south coast off Eastbourne on the afternoon of Monday September 1, 1986, when the town's 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat was...