Torbay, Devon. At 7.30 on the evening of the 14th of January, 1959, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a French trawler was leaking and needed help thirty miles east of Start Point. The life-boat Princess Alexan- dra of Kent was about...
SMALL BOAT ADRIFT New Brighton, Cheshire. At 6.40 p.m. on 7th October, 1964, the stageman told the honorary secretary that a small boat was adrift in midstream off Brazil buoy, in the river Mersey. Three men were on board and she was...
AFFINITY WITH The Royal Bank Qf Scot,and p,c DO YOU USE A CREDIT CARD? y* The Rpy?l Bank If you do, or you are considering re-arranging your finances in any way you could be helping directly to fund the RNLI with every transaction you...
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NEWSPOINT Since the previous issue of THE LIFEBOAT appeared in January the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day has given both young and old the chance to look back at the heroic deeds and sacrifices made to...
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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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The barque Jane Kilgour, of London, went on the Cross Sands, off this coast, on the 22nd Feb- ruary, and the Caister beachmen proceeded to her in one of their yawls, and endea- voured, by cutting away the masts, to get her off the sands....
Short service iust 500 yards from station - but a surfer's life is saved Ashort but very difficult service by North Sunderland's D class inflatable lifeboat on 18 May 1996 undoubtedly saved the life of a surfer, and also led to the...
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Determination saves boy's life The life of a ten year old boy was saved in May thanks to the determination and cooperation of Cullercoats lifeboat crew and lifeguard Chris Heaney - earning them all a Letter of Appreciation from the...
THE thirty-five women launchers of Boulmer were represented at the Annual Meeting by Miss N. Stephenson, the daughter of the Coxswain, and Mrs. B.
Stanton, the wife of the Second Coxswain. During their stay in London they...
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"While a whole gale was blowing from S.W. on the 28th March, signals of distress were shown by the brigantine Maxim, of and from Drogheda for Liverpool, in ballast, which had stranded about three hundred yards south of the harbour. She...