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Flood alert

Date: Winter 2012

Volume: 61

Issue: 602 Lifeboat Magazine Winter 2012

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...

Category: Articles

Notes of the Quarter

Date: October 1970

Volume: 41

Issue: 433

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-...

Category: Articles

The Power of the Sea

Date: Summer 2008

Volume: 61

Issue: 584

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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Teazer, of Goole

Date: October 1865

Volume: 05

Issue: 58

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...

Dispatch

Date: August 1878

Volume: 10

Issue: 109

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...

Eleanor, of New Quay

Date: August 1872

Volume: 08

Issue: 85

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...

Delia

Date: 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1946

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...

Called away from Ceremony

Date: Winter 2010

Volume: 61

Issue: 594

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...

Category: Articles

News from the Branches

Date: November 1929

Volume: 27

Issue: 300

1st July to 30th September.

Leaflets {or the Help of Honorary Secretaries and Collectors.

WE think that our Honorary Workers will like to have the following list of the leaflets (which have just been...

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Classified Advertisements

Date: Autumn 1974

Volume: 43

Issue: 450

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