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A Yacht (2)
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 8.20 p.m. on 23rd July, 1966, a small yacht appeared to be in difficulties in Dublin bay. There was a fresh westerly breeze with a choppy sea. The life-boat Dunleary II proceeded at 8.35 on an ebbing tide. She...
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 12.05 p.m. on 25th July, 1965, a sailing dinghy, with two people on board, capsized in Peterhead Bay. At 12.20 the life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was launched in a gentle north-westerly breeze and smooth...
In Brilliant Sunshine Dunbar Lifeboat
In brilliant sunshine, Dunbar lifeboat fete, held at the harbour on Saturday July 24, raised more than £6,700—a marvellous result exceeding the 1981 total by about £1,000. The Lifeboat Queen, Margaret-Ann Brunton, accompanied by... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Yacht
Buzz off! In an unusual rescue in south Wales on 23 July 2004, Burry Port lifeboat assisted a man whose yacht had been invaded by a swarm of bees. The man took refuge in the cabin and radioed for help and the Burry Port D class lifeboat came...
The S.S. Dagenham and the S.S. Sherbrooke
NOVEMBER 16-20TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At about 2.45 P.M. the coxswain received a message from the Warden Point coastguard that a ship was sinking close to the Mouse Light-vessel. A strong easterly gale was blowing, with a rough sea...
A Winter Passage In a Motor Life-Boat
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 124 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 45 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to August 31st, 1935 64,159 A Winter Passage in a Motor Life-boat.
By Mr....
Category: Articles
Rose
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 3.45 on the afternoon of the llth of April, 1959, the coastguard passed on to the assistant honorary secretary and coxs- wain a message received from the Galloper lightvessel that an auxiliary cutter was "...
A Life-Boat Song
MANY of our friends are often at a loss for a good Life-boat song, to be performed at concerts given on behalf of the Institution. Hence we welcome an excellent song which we have received from Mr. Jacob Davies, entitled, " The...
Category: Songs
Freidig
During a dense fog on the 3rd December signals of distress were heard, and the Life-boat, in tow of a Motor-boat, proceeded to the Inner Binks, where she found the steamer Freidiy in danger of stranding, after having been on the sands and...
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Dover, Kent.—On the 25th October, 1939, the motor life-boat Sir William Hillary was launched at 4.50 P.M. at the request of the chief of staff of H.M.
Naval Base at Dover. A strong E.N.E.
wind was blowing,...