The new B class lifeboat for Kyle of Lochalsh, in the Scottish Highlands, has been named Spirit of Fred. Olsen. She is pictured after her naming ceremony, being taken from the station to the water for a display.
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Below: Teignmouth lifeboat crew, family, friends and donors at the naming of The Two Annes. - View image in PDF
Photo: Nick Leach. - View image in PDF
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Coxswain Robert Greig, of Stromness, in the Orkneys, died on 23rd March at the age of eighty-three. At the age of ten he went to Edinburgh, and became assistant to his uncle, who was a book- seller. After two years of bookselling he went to...
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The new access bridge spans from shore to boathouse with just one central support founded on a rock outcrop.. - View image in PDF
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On the 27th October, 1867, during a strong gale of wind, the Florence life-boat put off, in reply to signals of distress from the smack Queen Victoria, of Brixham, which was dismasted off St. Govin's Head, and, with the assist- ance of a...
On the 26th May, the Gertrude life-boat on this station put off, and succeeded in rescuing the whole of the crew of 36 men, belonging to the ship Blanche Moore, of Liverpool, which was totally wrecked during a strong wind and squally weather...
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—At 10.45 on the night of the 7th of April, 1953, a wireless message was received stating that a passenger in the S.S. Cor- rientes, of Glasgow, was seriously ill with a perforated stomach ulcer andasking if the...
On the 8th May the schooner Handy, of Wexford, was stranded in the South Bay during a strong N.E. gale and in a very heavy sea. The Civil Service life-boat went off and rescued 4 men of the vessel's crew. Owing to the violence of the sea...
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall, on Wednesday, the 12th day of March, 1902, The Eight Hon. The EARL OF SELBORNE, P.O., First Lord of the...
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THE Eagle Book of Ships and Boats (Hulton Press, 15/-)., which is excel- lently produced and illustrated, has been published at a most reasonable price. It includes sections on the Royal Navy, the Merchant Navy, safety at sea and sailing....
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