ARANMOBE, co. DONEGAL—Information reached Aranmore about 9 P.M. on the 2nd August that two fishing boats belonging to the place were in difficulties, and as there was a S.E. gale blowing, with a rough sea, the Life-boat La Totitam was...
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DESPITE their name, there's nothing good about the Goodwin Sands, which comprises three hook-shaped banks off England's south east coast. For centuries these sandbars have been known to seamen as 'The Ship Swallowers', and it...
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A winter sponsored raft race on the River Dee organised by the Aberdeen Branch of the British Sub-Aqua Club raised £380 for Aberdeen's new Arun lifeboat BP Forties. The 27 starters were sent on their way by Coxswain Albert Bird, who... - View image in PDF
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PADSTOW, CORNWALL.—On the night of the 24th October, 1868, during a whole | gale from the W.N.W., the steamer Au- gusta, of Bristol, went on the Doom Bar i Sand. When her signals of distress were i seen from the shore, the " City of...
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THE DUKE OF ATHOM-, chairman of the Institution, reported to the annual general meeting of governors on Tuesday morning. May 17, that during 1982 lifeboats launched 3.304 times, the highest number since the foundation of the RNLI, and saved...
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The RNLI float carrying a 21' Atlantic ILB at the Lord Mayor's Show on November 10. The theme was 'The Year of the Life-boat'. by courtesy of Keystone. - View image in PDF
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The Penlee life-boat alongside the Ems Ore in Mounts Bay, Penzance, when in early October, 1966, the vessel put out an SOS following 'a night of violence by some members of her crew'.. - View image in PDF
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Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's new 44ft Waveney lifeboat, Barham, with Lowestoft lifeboat, the 47ft Watson Frederick Edward Crick in attendance. - View image in PDF
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AYR,N.B.—The brigantine Maggie Wood, of Belfast, bound from that port to Ayr in ballast, stranded on the Barton Rocks, about a mile and a half south of Ayr Harbour, during a gale of wind from the W.N.W. and a heavy sea on the evening of the...
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Picking up hospital cases is one of the many duties undertaken by life-boats. Here a seaman from the Esso tanker s.s. Canterbury, who was suffering from acute appendicitis, is being lowered to the Valentia life-boat from Kerry,... - View image in PDF
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