AT a time when great and, we trust, successful efforts are making to improve our life-boats, it is but right to put on record some facts connected with the first life-boat ever used in this country, the credit of which belongs to HENRY...
Category: Articles
25 years ago This issue of the journal will appear at the 1994 London Boat Show, exactly 25 years after the launching of what became the Institution's Membership Scheme: The Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters Association from THE...
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THREE LIFE-BOAT CALLS IN ONE AFTERNOON Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 1.45 on the afternoon of Saturday the 7th September, 1963, the life-boat Annie Ronald and Isabella Forrest was prepar- ing to launch on exercise in aid of the R.A.F.'s...
Holyhead, Anglesey - At 12.7 a.m.
on i8th September, 1966, the Liberian motor vessel Tyne Ore had a sick man on board who required urgent medicalattention. The life-boat St. Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) was launched at i.io....
Dover, Kent. At 1.43 on the after- noon of the 20th of July, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the police had reported a rowing boat in difficulties off Copt Point. At two o'clock the life-boat Southern Africa put out...
IN the obituary notice of the Viscount Grey of Fallodon, which appeared in the last issue of The Life-boat, it was stated that his last public appearance on behalf of the Institution was at the inaugural ceremony of the Boulmer motor...
Category: Obituaries
Angle, Pembrokeshire.—On the afternoon of the 6th September the coast watcher at St. Ann's Head telephoned that a Royal Air Force flying-boat was making SOS signals. A moderate S.E. gale was blowing, and the weather was thick. The sea...
Torbay, Devon.—About seven o'clock on the night of the 19th of December, 1949, the S.S. Fred, of Piraeus, about a mile off Brixham breakwater, was heard sounding her whistle. Flashing lights were seen. A motor boat put out and the...
Rosslare Harbour, and Kilmore, Co. Wexford.
—A message was received at Rosslare at 4.55 P.M. on the 3rd March, 1939, that an Irish Air Force seaplane had come down in the sea off Carnsore Point.
A S.S.E....
Saturday and Sunday, September 13 and 14, 1975: 47 launches on service FOUR AWARDS FOR GALLANTRYTWO SILVER MEDALS, a bronze medal, a vellum, 47 launches on service, 34 lives rescued, nine vessels saved, 172 hours at sea. Not a record by RNLI...
Category: Services