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THE LIFE-BOAT (Est. 1852) All editorial material submitted for consideration with a view to publication in the Journal should be addressed to The Editor, THE LIFE-BOAT, 42 Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.1 (Tel. 01-730 0031). Photographs...
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Eileen M and a Dinghy
Islay, Inner Hebrides. At 7.12 a.m.
on 12th January, 1966, the coastguard at Portpatrick informed the honorary secretary that the tanker Eileen M of London was ashore on the Mull of Oa. The lifeboat Francis W. Wotherspoon...
Penlee Lifeboat Disaster
Penlee Lifeboat Disaster With great sorrow the death is announced of the coxswain and crew of Penlee lifeboat which was lost on service on the night of Saturday December 19, 1981.
Penlee lifeboat, the 47ft Watson Solomon...
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Pandora
MAN RESCUED AFTER EXPLOSION IN FISHING VESSEL Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. About 2.15 on the morning of the 7th June, 1963, Porthdinllaen coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an explosion had been heard to seaward off Trevor...
Gertie
DECEMBER 8TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 5.45 A.M. a message was received from the military lookout post at Greenore Point that rockets and flares had been seen, and at 6.35 A.M. the motor lift-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was...
Spenanger
OCTOBER 29TH - 30TH. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. The laden Norwegian tanker Spenanger, of 7,248 tons, bound from Milford to the Clyde with an escort, got off her course and ran on the Carrick Rock, in Port St. Mary Bay. The weather was...
The S.S. Asteria
MARCH 10TH. - TROON, AYRSHIRE. At 11.30 P.M. on 9th March, the duty naval officer at Ardrossan reported the S.S. Asteria, of Glasgow, ashore on Eagle Rock, off Ardrossan breakwater, and in need of help. She was a vessel of 694 tons gross, in...
The Ex-Naval Motor Vessel 1503
DECEMBER 22ND. - CLOUGHEY, AND DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. At 5.50 in the morning the Tara coastguard telephoned the Cloughey life-boat station that a vessel was ashore between Kearney Point and North Rock. A strong southerly wind was blowing,...
The Ex-Naval Motor Vessel 1503 (1)
DECEMBER 22ND. - CLOUGHEY, AND DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. At 5.50 in the morning the Tara coastguard telephoned the Cloughey life-boat station that a vessel was ashore between Kearney Point and North Rock. A strong southerly wind was blowing,...
Index to the Gift Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
INDEX TO THE GIFT LIFE-BOATS OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. (The figures refer to ttie numbers of the Lifeboats detailed on the ten preceding Pages.) A. B. S., 123. Dodd, H..Esq . the late, 274. H...
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