Lerwick lifeboat I read, with interest, James R. Kay's letter regarding Lerwick lifeboat and his uncle's yacht Soldian, which was published in the autumn issue of THE LIFEBOAT.
It may be of some interest to Mr Kay...
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Galway Bay - At 4.10 a.m. on 6th November, 1968, it was learnt that there was a seriously ill man on Inishmaan island. The life-boat Joseph Hiram Chadwick, with a doctor on board, slipped her moorings at 5.10. There was a strong east north...
On the 29th December, intelligence was received here that a vessel was anchored at the entrance of the harbour, near Hell Bay, with an en- sign flying half-mast high. The wind was W.S.W., blowing a very strong gale. The Padstow life-boat was...
THE Royal National Life-boat Institution has been criticised from time to time for being slow in adopting modern designs and techniques.
Such criticism largely arises from a lack of appreciation of several factors which...
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DRIFTING TOWARDS THE ROCKS Wicklow.—At 4.30 in the afternoon of January 28th, 1947, the lighthouse keeper at Wicklow Head telephoned that a fishing boat was flying distress signals half a mile south-east of the Head. A strong...
About 10 A.M. on the 26th September, a N.E. breeze increased to gale force, causing the sea to break heavily at the harbour entrance, and making it very dangerous to cross the bar. As the motor fishing boats Enterprise, Rosa, Comfort and...
At 7.20 p.m. on 15th October, 1966, request was received for the life-boat to convey a patient to hospital on the mainland. At 8.15 the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her moorings. It was three hours before low water. The life-boat...
On the 4th June, at 4 A.M., during a fresh breeze from the N. and misty rain, the Life-boat Bradford and steam-tug Aid went out in reply to signal guns from the Gull Lightship. They proceeded through the Old Cudd Channel, and round to the...
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Other Launches on the Night of the 28th.
On the opposite side of Anglesey to Moelfre and Beaumaris. the two Holyhead Life-boats were also out for the greater part of the night, the Steam Life-boat being launched twice, the...