Trapped in mud TWO YOUNG GIRLS, Mandy Warren and Katie Flowers, were walking near Benarth Point on Conwy Estuary on Saturday morning, January 19, when, at about 0915, they heard shouts for help in the distance and shots being fired. They ran...
Mr Michael O'Donaghue (Baltimore) who served as coxswain for over 18 years and as bowman for nearly 12 years.
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Mr. C. B. Stoddart, who died last December, had for sixteen years been Honorary Secretary of the Cardiff and Penarth Branch. He was a well-known and very popular figure in Cardiff, being the represei tive there of the Bowring Shipping...
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APRIL 20TH. - TOBERMORY, ARGYLLSHIRE.
A little girl had been reported missing on an island, and the life-boat with its searchlight searched the shores of the island by night without success. Next day the girl was found by...
The Scarborough life-boat J, G. Graves of Sheffield going out on service.. - View image in PDF
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The first Waveney, 44-001, is going to the National Lifeboat Co/lection at Chatham. She is pictured here on trials in December 1964.. - View image in PDF
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Douglas Head and Harbour, 1974. Note lifeboat boathouse and slip in outer harbour, or Crough; Fort Anne, above inner harbour; and Si Mary's Rock with its Tower of Refuge at bottom right of picture.
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Trial of patience A MESSAGE from the 1,100-ton coastal tanker Olga, on passage from Liverpool to Bergen, stating she was aground on Bhride Island and that the crew of 10 aboard required assistance, was intercepted by Portpatrick radio...
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT CROMER OCT. 9TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 6.25 in the morning the Cromer coxswain learned through the Humber radio and the coastguard that a vessel had gone ashore on Haisborough Sands, thirteen miles...
Thanks to your support, the RNLI is helping to make the seas a safer place for the people who put fish on our tables
Commercial fishing in the cold, rough seas around the UK and Republic of Ireland is a hazardous...
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