Right: Crew members of Rhyt's Mersey class lifeboat bring m the hypothermic skiers.. - View image in PDF
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Llandudno, Caernarvonshire; Rhyl, Flintshire; Beaumaris and Moelfre, Anglesey - At 4 p.m. on 6th May, 1968, the coastguard informed the Llandudno honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser had broken down one mile west of Great Ormes Head...
Mrs Instance, one of the Falmouth ladies' guild's most ardent collectors, and mother of one of the committee members, was photographed with lone atlantic yachtsman, Gerry Speiss, shortly after his triumphant arrival at Falmouth.... - View image in PDF
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Two days afterwards the same Life-boat was again launched during a gale from the S.S.W., and in a heavy sea, and assisted the barque Elltn, of Llanelly, into a place of safety, she being in distress at the time.
It was not...
FEBRUARY 5TH and 6TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. At 9 A.M. information was received through the coastguard that a vessel was ashore south of Barra Island, and the motor life-boat Lloyd’s was launched at 10 A.M. Half a gale was blowing from...
Last spring it was announced that the Variety Club of Great Britain had agreed to meet the costs of the payments made by the RNLI to dependent children of lifeboatmen who had lost their lives on service or exercise, and also that the Club... - View image in PDF
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Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Abersoch, Caernarvonshire Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire Atlantic College, Glamorganshire Bangor, Co. Down Barrow, Lancashire Bembridge, Isle of Wight Blackpool, Lancashire Bridlington, Yorkshire Broughty Ferry, Angus...
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Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 6.25 a.m. on 24th March, 1967, a ship was reported to be on fire off Flamborough Head. The Flamborough life-boat had already been launched to provide lifesaving assistance if required. As it wasnecessary to...
JUNE 7TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON. At one in the morning a request came for the life-boat crew to stand by, as the deep sea tug Empire Harry, of Hull, with two laden lighters in tow, had gone ashore. A fresh south-west wind was blowing, with a...