On the 23rd February the gale which had been the cause of the wrecks previously noted shifted to the N.E., and increased in fury, setting up a terrible sea in Fishguard Bay. At about an hour after midnight of 22-23rd, signals of distress...
Sometimes, there is no better way to show the RNLI’s people and purpose than with a photograph
Lifeboat crew member and award-winning photographer Nigel Millard has devoted 2 years to capturing...
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THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 108 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 75 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to - 62,866 February 29th, 1932 The Life-boat Service in 1931.
ALTHOUGH,...
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A PRIVATE AEROPLANE CRASHES St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At 8.15 on the night of the 15th of August, 1947, a resident telephoned that her husband had taken off in his aeroplane, with the life-boat's assistant motor mechanic as a...
Clovelly, Devon. — At 4.18 on the afternoon of the 3rd of August, 1952, the Hartland Point coastguard tele- phoned that a boy was reported to be cut off by the tide at Shipload Bay, and at 4:30 the life-boat William Cantrell Ashley was...
Collecting house flags of various shipping lines is the hobby of Mr. C. M. Pope, who lives near Sherborne in Dorset. For each flag received he sends a contribution to the R.N.L.I., this "consideration money" amounting to an average...
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Station by station lifeboat launches for June and July Aberdeen: ILB D-536: Jun 3 (2) Jul 5(2) and Jul 1 1 Aberdoiey: ILB B-758: Jun IH Jul I6and Jul 22 Abtnock ILBB-582: Jun 10 and Jul 23 biT stwylh: 1LBB-704: Jun 4 Jun 17(3) Jul 20 and...
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Lifeboat station histories On A Wave and A Prayer A History of the Youghal Lifeboat Station by Brendan O'Driscoll published by the author at CIR9.50 The port of Youghal (pronounced 'Yawl') on Ireland's beautiful southern...
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NOVEMBER 18- 20TH. - BALTIMORE, COURTMACSHERRY, AND BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. About 10.30 A.M. a wireless message, which had been picked up at Cork, was received at Baltimore that the steamer Nestlea, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, had been attacked by...
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 8.20 on the morning of the 8th of June, 1958, the Bailey lighthouse keeper telephoned the honorary secretary to say a radio message had been received from Tusker Rock lighthouse that a trawler was adrift...