Volunteers from the RNLI’s Flood Rescue Team (FRT) evacuated people from their flooded homes in St Asaph, North Wales at the end of November. Crew members from lifeboat stations at Beaumaris, Conwy, Moelfre and Rhyl joined forces with...
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THE weekend of 15th/16th August, 1970, was the busiest the life-boat service has known in its entire history. Winds of force 10 or more were blowing, and there was a spate of activity by both life-boats and inshore rescue boats, par-...
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Dunbar’s Trent class all-weather lifeboat Sir Ronald Pechell Bt parted the ground chain of her moorings and was repeatedly thrown against rocks in ferocious conditions of up to storm force 10 in the early hours of Easter...
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On the morning of the 20th March the Rosslare life-boat again went out to the rescue of the crew of the schooner Teazer, of Goole, which had struck on the North Bar. It was blowing a gale from the E.N.E., and there was a heavy sea on at the...
HOLY ISLAND.—On the 21st March, at about 11 P.M., signals of distress were seen just beyond the bar. There was a heavy rolling sea, and the night was very dark. The Life-boat Grace Darling was launched, and went out to the vessel, but great...
The schooner Eleanor, of New Quay, Cardiganshire, .was seen on the Constable Bank, off Rhyl, on the evening of the 2nd June, with a signal of distress flying. The tubular Life-boat Morgan was launched as soon as practicable to her assistance...
AUGUST 29TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
At 3.30 in the afternoon, messages were received from the Colwyn Bay police and the Rhyl coastguard that a fishing boat was in distress off Rhos pier, drifting seawards. A strong...
Just after the opening ceremony for Exmouth RNLI’s new boathouse, the crews’ pagers went off and guests saw both lifeboats launched on a real rescue.
A catamaran sailor had been injured and was picked up by a passing...
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