By VICE-ADMIRAL Fitz-Roy, F.R.S.
AFTER an unusual continuance of stormy weather—remarkable even in the equinoctial period of our zone—it may interest some of the readers of the Life-boat Journal to hear a few of the...
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The Lizard—Cadgwith, Cornwall - At 1.42 a.m. on 29th July, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted five miles west of the Lizard lighthouse.lighthouse.
At 2.10 the life-boat The...
IN THE January number of THE LIFE-BOAT details were given of some of the R.N.L.I.'s plans to celebrate the 150th anniversary of its foundation in 1974. To these may now be added an important appeal which is being made to civic heads...
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These two pictures are from sketches made by the Bowman of the St. Mary's Motor Life-boat, Mr. Harry Barrett..
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AT no recent period have the disastrous effects of storms been more severely than during the hurricane of the 2nd and 3rd December last.
Its results were felt, more or less, in all parts of the country. About 11 A.M. on...
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Rescue of the crew of the s.s. Sprightly, of Newcastle, by the Danish Life-saving Service last June.. - View image in PDF
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Some of the 100 guests in the garden of Mrs Denis Wiffen ofMeols, Wirral. They enjoyed a strawberry lunch with wine organised last summer on behalf of Hoylake ladies' guild. Mrs Wiffen can be seen standing in the background on the left... - View image in PDF
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Yarmouth, Isle of Wight: During a visit to the Isle of Wight last October, HRH The Duchess of Kent called at Yarmouth lifeboat station, meeting officials of the branch and of West Wight guild. While being introduced to the crew by Coxswain... - View image in PDF
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For which Rewards were given at the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Porthcawl, Glamorganshire.—The fish- ing boat Lucky Boy, with a crew of four, got into difficulties on the afternoon of...
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SIXTY years ago last September, and fifty years ago this December, life- boats were capsized and lives were lost.
Sixty years ago it was the life-boat at Kingstown, Co. Dublin, which capsized.
Her second...
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