THROUGH the kindness of the organizers of the annual Shipping, Engineering and Machinery Exhibition, held at Olympia last September, the Institution was given free space for a life-boat exhibit for the fortnight during which the exhibition...
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At 5 A.M. on the 26th August the Coxswain of the Life-boat Mayheie Medwin received in- formation that there were no tidings of a small fishing yawl, the Shamrock, of Peel, which left Harbour at 10.30 A.M.
the previous day....
Memento of a night to remember: When the 85-strong Caldicat Male ("»/ce Choir, together with soprano soloist Miss Ann Beynon. gave a concert at Bournemouth at the invitation of the ladies' guild and Miss Mary Palmer on May 28,... - View image in PDF
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Lifeboat Services (from page 8) At 2248, seeing the boat pass through the foul area, Coxswain Bowry took Gertrude on to the sand in breaking seas 7 cables from the casualty's position. The wind was now north east force 6 with rough seas...
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At 8 A.M. on the 26th February, a telephone message was received from the coastguard that one of H.M. Torpedo Destroyers was rapidly drifting towards the break- water, and that the crew of the Life- boat Friern Watch should be...
Tenby Life-Boat Takes Christmas Fare To Helwick Lightvessel. - View image in PDF
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Helmsman Andrew Coe, Adam Cowell And Phil Brenchley. - View image in PDF
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Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—14th Sep- ** tember, 1939. At 2.20 P.M. the civic guard at Cork reported that a man had picked up a wireless SOS call from the s.s. Vancouver City, of Bideford.
She was a vessel of about 5,000 tons...
Station secretary saves drowning man Trearddur Bay honorary secretary Jack Abbott was awarded a Royal Humane Society award and Resuscitation Certificate for saving the life of a man he found face down in the sea on 24...
SEPT. 14TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO.
CORK. At 2.20 P.M. the civic guard at Cork reported that a man had picked up a wireless S O S call from the S.S. Vancouver City, of Bideford. She was a vessel of about 5,000 tons and had been...