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Life-Boat Service In Ireland. The Governor-General of the Irish Free State and the Governor of Northern Ireland As Patrons
THE first Life-boat Station was estab- lished in Ireland, at Arklow, in 1826, two years after the foundation of the Institu- tion itself, and since then the Institution has continued to maintain the Life-boats on the Irish coast, where it...
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No Sea Room from Page 18
No Sea Room from page 18 and one man was clinging to the gunwale and the other two were just inside the bulwarks clinging to his legs. Of course you always wonder what's going to happen to the last man off, because there will be nobody...
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Gaidan
FLAMBOROUGH, Sunday May 12,1985: Flamborough's 37ft Oakley class lifeboat, Will and Fanny Kirby, launched at 1207. The Filey fishing coble, Gaidan, had been crabbing close in under the cliffs, north of Flamborough Head. The weather was...
Headstrong
Rescue against the clock Drifting closer to a rocky shore minute by minute, the yacht Headstrong needed help to survive the night. But would the Plymouth lifeboat reach them in time?Hampered by fishing gear around her propeller, Headstrong...
Alf
Epic rescue at RosslareA French trawler with five crew was drifting without power 14 mites south of Tuskar Rock Lighthouse on the south coast of Ireland so the Arun class Mabel Williams slipped her moorings at 2.37pm on 5 November...
Index to the Branches
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Yachts
New Quay, Cardiganshire. At 10.7 p.m. on 4th August, 1965, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Aberdovey IRB had launched and that the Aberystwyth IRB was about to launch to search for several yachts which were missing and...
A Life-Boatman's Generosity. Mr. Richard Cowling. Late Signalman of Scarborough
IT is not only on the seas that Life-boatmen show the fine stuff of which they are made, and we feel sure that the following story will be read with as much pleasure and pride as any story of gallantry and devotion in the actual work of...
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The Safety Fishing-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, aircompartments, shifting-coamings, and hatches of one of the safety boats, 40 feet in length and 14 feet in breadth.
In figs. 1 and 2, the...
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