IN November 1908 and in February this year an account was given in the Life-boat Journal of the steps taken to select a new Life-boat, and also some Notes of the way she is built. It may now be of interest to the coxswains and crews who man...
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JANUARY DURING January life-boats were launched on service 39 times and rescued 45 lives.
FISHING BOAT TOWED FROM NEAR ROCKS Newcastle, Co. Down.—At 10.50 on the night of the 1st of January, 1957, the Kilkeel coastguard...
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Launches 65. Lives rescued 43.
Februar- eeting.
Rossi "--• „ Co. Wexford.—On the 20th uoer, 1938, the crew of four of the motor schooner M....
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Towing a stricken boat to the safety of port might seem routine but, in often gruelling conditions, it takes great skill and smart decision making. So what’s involved in a tow?
First, the crew must decide whether or not they need...
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IT will be remembered that this com- petition was started in 1918 and proved a great success, over 5,000 schools taking part. It was continued in the two following years, and though each year there was a considerable decrease in the number...
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EEDCAB.—The Life-boat Brothers was launched for exercise at 2.15 P.M. on the 23rd June, 1892, in a moderate gale from the N. by E. and a rough sea, and, while under sail, the coble Wild Hose, of Eedcar, was seen, about two miles to leeward,...
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In 1966 the value of the inshore rescue boat as a means of saving life at sea has been proved beyond all possible doubt. It was only in 1963 that these boats were first used operationally, largely as an experiment. So successful have they...
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At seven o'clock on the morning of the 24th of March, 1958, a message was received from 1115 Marine Craft Unit, Royal Air Force, that one of the unit's air-sea rescue launches had broken adrift from her moorings...
Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present
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Shirley recognised at Trearddur Bay
Shirley Rogerson, awarded the British Empire Medal in HM The...
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THE life-boat service can look back with both satisfaction and gratitude on the year 1963 as a whole. Life-boats saved no fewer than 354 lives; the new inshore rescue boats saved 10 lives, and 224 lives were saved by shore- boats in services...
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