As a result of the account by Mr.
Robert H. Mahony, honorary secretary of the Ballycotton station, in the June issue of The Life-boat, of the very gallant service of the Ballycotton motor life-boat to the Daunt Rock...
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Stirling Whorlow QBE Stirling Whorlow QBE, the secretary of the Institution for eight years from 1961 to 1969 died at his home in Spain on 2 October 1988.
One of his colleagues from the RNLI at the time writes: 'It is...
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The new access bridge spans from shore to boathouse with just one central support founded on a rock outcrop.. - View image in PDF
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Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. — At 2.2 P.M. on the 3rd December, 1937, the coastguard reported that a motor ketch anchored in the harbour was flying a signal of distress. A whole N.N.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea and squalls of rain. The...
Very early on the morning of the 12th September, a most furious gale suddenly sprang up on this coast. A few hours afterwards the wind had somewhat moderated, and the lugger Jsabelk, of Dinan, France, attempted to enter Padstow Harbour, but,...
One at a time the twin Ford diesel engines. - View image in PDF
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0800 on a January morning. Sarah To wnsend Porritt is safely home on her moorings and the crew can disperse. On extreme left, the author, Wallace Lister Barber; second from right, Coxswain Arthur Wignall.. - View image in PDF
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Again, on that day, during a gale from the W.N.W., the barque Cassandra, of Liverpool, was wrecked in Compton Bay, near this Life- boat Station, while on a voyage to the Thames from Madras. The Life-boat George and Anne was taken to the Bay,...
On the 4th February the smack Leader, of Harwich, was wrecked off Thorpeness in a very heavy sea. The Ips- wich life-boat was soon launched and taken alongside the vessel. All the crew had abandoned her except the master, and had been picked...
During the morning of the 26th May two men went off in their yawl, the Diano, to fish in St. Andrews Bay. A strong S.E.
gale came up about 11 A.M., and the men were unable to get their boat into harbour. As the sea was very...