by Colin Watson Unusual lighting picks out the details on the Bangor (Co Down) Atlantic 21 class lifeboat as she takes up station astern of the station's all-weather lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
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Michael Forsyth, a pupil of Kirkwall Grammar School, hands over a cheque for £78.80 to Captain M. S. Work, honorary secretary of Kirkwall lifeboat station, on board the 70ft Clyde class lifeboat, Grace Paterson Ritchie. The money was... - View image in PDF
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Go forth, thou gallant boat! God speed thee on the main I Not oft, if ever, wilt thou float Thus tranquilly again.
Go I proudly ride the wave— The restless waters sleep; Hereafter thou must breast and brave The fury of the...
Category: Poetry
Thurso, Caithness-shire - At 10.30 a.m. on 12th March, 1968, a message was received that a member of the crew of the s.s. Explorer of Leith had suffered a heart attack. The life-boat Pentland (Civil Service No. 31) was launched at 11.30. It...
This artist's impression of one of the large islands illustrates the freedom of layout and building possible on these floating structures.. - View image in PDF
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Inga Tholstrup aground on the left with attendant tug and sister ship Elisabet Tholstrup during the unloading of her cargo of gas. photograph by courtesy of Michael Welch. - View image in PDF
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On the 7th December, during a fearful gale of wind from W.S.W., the Edward Wasey life-boat went off, and brought safely ashore the crew of 12 men and a pilot from the Norwegian barque Inga, which was at anchor, in a dis- masted state, near...
As described in the article in the last issue of The Life-boat on the 35 feet 6' inches self-righting type of motor life-boat, the Institution was engaged from 1921 to 1929 in experiments on a motor life-boat which should be suffi-...
Category: Articles
Sweet Revenge Please allow me to have sweet revenge on my friend Mr Tony Pearce, who is the auxiliary in charge of St Davids coastguard station.
When I first took over as the honorary secretary of St Davids lifeboat station...
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MONTROSE.—On August 17th, at 1 P.M., the herring-boat Vivid of Ferryden, got aground on the Annat Bank, with a fresh south-easterly breeze, a good deal of sea on the bank. The Life-boat Roman Governor of Caer-Bun was launched and proceeded...