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Town & Country
Although a Town & Country driveway is beautiful to look at, its beauty is more than skin deep. Beneath the surface is a unique fibre reinforcement that helps prevent sinking and spreading.
Its surface, once sealed, is...
Category: Advertisement
(Left) Some of the Survivors of Portrush Northern Ireland Raft Race
(Left) Some of the survivors of Portrush, Northern Ire/and, raft race at the finishing line. The race, paddled in cold, blustery weather on May 28 by more than 60 competitors from all over the Province, raised a fine £5,000 for the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Steamer (19)
MARCH 17TH. - PORT ST. MARY, AND DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN. A steamer had stranded, near Fort Island, Isle of Man, but the crew were rescued from the shore by the coastguard life-saving apparatus. - Rewards : Port St. Mary, £25 8s. 9d. ;...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 10th November, 1938.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contributions:—• Mr. C. V. Thomas, C.A. . . 1,500 0 0 R.N.D. . . ...
Category: Committee
The Thirty-First of January: A Day of Disaster
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to August 31st, 1953 ....
78,333 The Thirty-first of January: A Day of...
Category: Services
Isle of lifesavers
Meet the men and women flying the lifesaving flag on the Isle of Man 190 years on ...
Norman Quillin
Ex-Coxswain/Mechanic, Port St Mary<...
Category: Articles
The South Rock Lightvessel
Cloughey, Co. Down.—7th September, 1938. Signals were seen flying from the South Rock Light-vessel, but they were found to be for a tender to bring a sick man ashore. — Rewards, £10 2s. 6d..
A Trawler (8)
OCT. 1ST. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
A small trawler had been reported in a sinking condition fifty miles away, but another vessel took her in tow. The lifeboat returned after being out for over nine hours. - Rewards,...
The Balloon Vessel Thora
APRIL 26TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
At 2.50 A.M. the naval authorities reported that the balloon vessel Thora had got on to the boom defence, but that the tug Yorkshireman was going to her help. A whole W.S.W. gale was...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
ARBROATH, FORFARSHIRE.—At about 11 P.M. on the 27th May the large fishing-boat Brothers Gem stranded on the rocks about half a mile to the N.E.
of Arbroath Harbour, and cries for help could be heard from the...
Category: Services