Drowning is a silent epidemic that claims an estimated 360,000 lives
every year, many of them children. This summer, we brought this to the attention of world leaders, with a photographic exhibition at the UN Headquarters in New...
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IN The Lifeboat for June, 1923, a list was published of launches of Life-boats and assemblies of Crews during the first four months of that year, with the names of the vessels in question and of their owners, and the amount of the...
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As the revolving year comes round, the direful effects of storms and shipwrecks are vividly brought tinder our notice by the details of the Wreck Kegister recently issued under the auspices of the Board of Trade. From it we regret to observe...
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A message was received shortly before nine o'clock in the morning of the 6th August, stating that a sailing-barge was in difficulties near the entrance to Mothecombe Harbour. The Life-boat Michael Smart was at once launched and proceeded...
The Motor Life-boat Albert Edward was launched shortly after 10 A.M. on the 12th De- cember in response to a telephone message from the Gunfleet Lighthouse, reporting that a barge, with her masts1 and sails gone, was apparently drifting in...
The Dublin lifeboat spring sale of work was held in the Royal Dublin Society on Friday March 9. With over 300 voluntary workers involved it is the single largest fund-raising event in Ireland for the lifeboat service. Mrs...
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SECOND-Coxswain James Sim, of Fraserburgh, one of the medallists who was present at the Annual Meeting, was interviewed on his return home by the Fraserburgh correspondent of The Fishing News about his visit to London, and this is what he...
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Brothers and stations unite When Red Bay lifeboat crew were paged, there was no immediate threat to life for the couple on the yacht, Chtoe. Yet at Red Bay station brothers Tom and Paddy McLaughlin remember thinking: 'It was blowing a...
THE following Regulations are intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, an j to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew, and...
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