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‘HE SAVED HER FROM DISGRACE’
Janet Gleeson’s well researched biography of our founder, Sir William Hillary, The Lifeboat Baronet revealed vital new information that removes a slur on the great...
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On the Self-Righting Principle In Life Boats
SINCE the publication of the Report of the Northumberland Life-boat Committee, a good deal has been said and written on the subject of the self-righting principle in life-boats in the event of their being upset, a quality which was strongly...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution During the First Three Months of 1877
BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—On the afternoon of the 1st January, when a strong gale from the N.E. and a fresh in the river had set up an unusually heavy sea on the bar of the Tweed, the barque Result, of Guern- sey, which was bound from Sombrero to...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Services June July and August 1981
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire D class inflatable: August 3 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Relief Atlantic 21: June 13. 18, July 24. 25 and August 8 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: June 3. 4, 8, 24. July 13 (twice), 28, 29. August 6, 20 and 21 Aberystwyth,...
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Ros Ailither and Ros Tuaisceart
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 11.14 on the morning of the 3rd of May. 1955, a man rang up to say that he had received a message by radio telephone from his fishing boat Ros Ailither that she had taken in tow the fishing boat Ros...
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN.—A new Life-boat establishment has been formed here by the, Institution, some shipwrecks which had taken place in the locality, having shown the desirability of having a Life-boat on the spot, in the event of...
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Report of the Royal Commission on Harbours of Refuge
THERE are few matters of greater importance to a maritime country like England than the preservation and improvement of its harbours. To the extent of our sea-coast, and the bountiful distribution of safe and commodious harbours on so many...
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A Boat (3)
Happisburgh, Norfolk. At 6.45 p.m.
on i2th June, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat with three people on board would capsize if her crew attempted to beach her. At 7.7 the IRB launched in...