Lifeboat Services from page 191 he would ground and he was advised to anchor.
A quarter of an hour later Pass of Dirriemore had dropped her anchor some seven miles south west of Hartland, and it held. By 0300 the wind had...
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Margate, Kent. At 12.36 on the after- noon of the llth June, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized off Birching- ton and that a motor boat had gone to her help. The Margate Yacht Club had been...
On the night of the 16th December, the barque Strathleven, of Glasgow, was wrecked, during a strong wind W. by N., half a mile North of Float Bay, about seven miles from Port Logan.
The vessel was under double reefed...
LIFE-BOATMAN DIES ABOARD FISHING BOAT Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At 10.20 p.m.
on Monday the 12th of August, 1963, the honorary secretary was told that an 18-foot punt, which had been taken out lobster potting, appeared to have...
THE MEDAL R0YAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, PRESERVATION OP LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, " L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National...
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During the filming of the BBC television drama series 'Lifeboat', due to be shown this Spring, members of Penarth ladies' guild were asked to man fundraising stalls and act as extras.
The ladies make their... - View image in PDF
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At day- break on the iJ3rd November, a schooner, the Susan and Isabella, of Dundee, laden with potatoes, was observed under Coquet Island, with signal of distress flying, Her cargo having shifted during the night. The wind was blowing hard...
PETERHEAD, SCOTLAND.—The People's Journal No. 1 Life-boat was launched at noon on the 5th of January, 1886, some of the boats engaged in the haddock fishery having been overtaken by a strong gale of wind from the N.E. and. a heavy sea....
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THE forty-first anniversary of this ad- mirable society was held at the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon Street, on the 27th May, under the presidency of Admiral Sir ALEXANDER MILNE, G.C.B., Vice- President.
Amongst those...
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Notes of the Quarter 74 Lifeboat Services 77 Volume XUX *M~11TviVipi* 4RO Naming Ceremonies and Dedications 83 Working Together: helicopters and lifeboats 89 Chairman: Lifeboat People 94 THE DUKE OF ATHOLL Director and Secretary: Used...
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