lakes a bit of will power to give up vour daily bag of crisps at school during Lent but Robert Crumble, aged six, decided this would be his sacrifice for his school's Lenten collection.
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FEBRUARY 28TH . - POOLBEG , CO .DUBLIN. At 5.30 P.M. a resident of Ringsend reported that a small open boat was adrift in the fairway of the River Liffey, east of Pigeon House Fort. A strong S.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea and an...
The Finest Service of 1928.
Silver Medal Awarded to the Coxswain at New Brighton.
THE Institution has awarded its Silver Medal to Coxswain George Robinson, of New Brighton, on the Mersey, and its Bronze...
Our lifeboat crews and lifeguards carry out thousands of rescues every year. Here are just some of those caught on camera, and see the following pages for more reports:
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Drifting in a raging storm in the middle of the Irish Sea, the crew of the stricken Greek freighter, Nafsiporos, feared they’d never see their families again. Who had the skill and courage to get to them in time? It’s only 3½ weeks...
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YACHT TOWED IN Eastbourne, Sussex. At 3.6 p.m. on 2 ist August, 1965, a yacht was seen burning flares south of the life-boat house. The life-boat Beryl Tollemache was launched at 3.20 in a south-westerly gale and a very rough sea. The tide...
When a 180m-long cargo vessel beached on a sandbank on 3 January, some crew members were trapped inside while others prepared to abandon ship. What happened next called on the skill and courage of four lifeboat...
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'Certain members of crews are also trained to carry out rescue work as swimmers, and special wet suit swimming equipment has recently been developed.'. - View image in PDF
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Holy Island, and North Sunderland, Northumberland. — At 5.22 on the evening of the 5th of March, 1952, the Holy Island coastguard re- ported to the Holy Island life-boat station a message received from the North Sunderland life-boat station...
Brooke Marine Limited E S T A B L I S H E D 1874 SHIPBUILDERS ENGINEERS AND CONSULTING NAVAL ARCHITECTS 12 metre fast patrol boats recently delivered and now under construction for various overseas governments.
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