WHEN diesel engines were first fitted into a life-boat in 1932 a new policy was adopted which was to be of the greatest importance in the history of life-boat construction. Just how im- portant this development has been isshown by the fact...
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On Station The following lifeboats have taken up station and relief fleet duties: ALL-WEATHER Workington - Tyne 47-028 (ON 1141) Sir John Fisher on 8 June 1992.
Peel -Mersey 12-22 (ON 1181) Ruby Clery on 10 June...
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Port Erin, Isle of Man.—At 3 A.M. on the 4th April the coastguard reported that a steamer off the Calf of Man was sounding her siren, as if in distress. The wind was light and the sea smooth, but there was a very thick fog. The motor...
DECEMBER 7TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 1 A.M. the coast-guard reported a message from the coastwatching post at Goring that it had seen red flares at sea about a mile away. A fresh S.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate...
HARTLEPOOL | 21 MARCH
Washed 20m out to sea and battered by a heavy swell, one angler owes his life to RNLI volunteers who were on exercise nearby. Hartlepool’s Atlantic 85 inshore lifeboat...
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WEXFORD, IRELAND. — On the 2nd April the lightship's tender steamship Belle, of Wexford, stranded during a strong S.S.W. gale on the bar at the mouth of the river, and the Life-boat James Stevens No. 15 was despatched with promptness to...
Artist John Todd (I) admires some of the works on show at the exhibition he mounted for three days in October at the Lesser Town Hall, Lossiemouth. With him is another exhibitor, Mr McPherson who, along with all the other artists, agreed to... - View image in PDF
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SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT TROON DECEMBER 6TH. - TROON, AYR-SHIRE During the afternoon a whole gale from the north-west was blowing, with a very heavy sea running and fierce squalls of hail. It was described as the worst on that coast for many...
THE splendid services carried out by the crew of the Tynemouth Motor Life-boat Henry Vernon, on the occasion of the wreck of the hospital ship Rohilla off Whitby, in 1914, are probably still fresh in the memory of our readers, and the fine...
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Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 11.40 on the night of the 6th of June, 1956, the Dingle Coast Life-saving Service tele- phoned that the fishing boat Carraig Doun, of Dublin, had engine trouble one mile west of Ventry harbour and was being driven...