THE Inaugural Ceremony of the new Motor Life-boat at Hoylake, Cheshire, took place on 9th June. This boat has been provided out of the Oldham Life- boat Fund, which was started just over fifty years ago, and towards which by special appeals,...
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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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— At 8 P.M. on the 19th January the watchman re- ported that a vessel had stranded on the "Inner Binks," about one mile S.E.
of the Watch House. Robert Cross, the Coxswain of the Life-boat, at once went to the...
During a strong N.E. gale in the evening of 8th January one of the anchor chains, to which the schooner Unity, of Carnarvon, was lying at anchor in a dangerous part of Fishguard Bay, parted. There were four persons on board the schooner, and...
li RNLI coxswains sail through new RYA course Four coxswains have achieved RYA motor cruising qualifications. The course forms part of competencebased training for volunteer and full-time lifeboat crews. The successful crew are coxswain Rod...
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Cave campers swamped Six cave campers at Tenby were taken by surprise in the early hours of 5 August, when the tide came in and washed their possessions away. They retreated further into the cave, but soon found themselves in deep water....
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MY INTEREST IN PAINTING an incident from the famous Lynmouth lifeboat service to Forrest Hall goes back to the time when I was boatswain in the little square-rigged replica of Nonsuch ketch.
We were on passage from Falmouth...
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