The steel-hulled 48-foot 6-inch Oakley Mark III life-boat which is now at Ross- Lire Harbour, County Wexford. The R.N.L.I, is fully satisfied that steel hulls are in every way as satisfactory as wooden hulls, and at present nine steel... - View image in PDF
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Rough conditions for Brighton's Atlantic Ashort but difficult service by Brighton's Atlantic 75 last December has earned two of her crew the Institution's Thanks on Vellum. Prompt action, good seamanship, a brave swim in rough...
Eleven student pilots from Wexford Aero Club back home with their Beagle Pup aircraft after a gruelling day's sponsored relay flight round Ireland, with six crew changes. It was a complicated navigation exercise to test crew skills with... - View image in PDF
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Celebrating the RNU family, past and present
Interrupted nuptials
When Littlestone-on-sea RNLI volunteers Matt and Heather Crittenden decided to hold their wedding ceremony at the...
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The death has occurred of Ex-Coxswain James T. Upperton, of Shoreham, who was 78.
In 1941, as acting coxswain, Mr. Upperton was awarded the silver medal of the Institutions for rescuing 22 people from a minesweeper. Then,...
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A GREAT PROBLEM is posed by protective clothing. 'Oilskins' made of a single layer of waterproof material will keep out the wet, but, because of the difference in temperature between the outside atmosphere and the body heat, and...
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MOTOR LAUNCH TAKEN IN TOW Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 4.25 on the afternoon of the 31st July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor launch had broken down and was drifting out to sea a mile east-by-south of Penmon...
ARKLOW. — On the morning of the 28th March, the schooner Express, of and for Wexford, from Dublin, while beating down against a strong S.W. wind between the Arklow Bank and the mainland, the weather at the time being thick, with rain, stood...
On the 11th November, at about 5 P.M., the smack Menai Packet, of Carnarvon, bound from Swansea to Newry, with coal, which was riding at anchor in Forthdinllaen Bay, showed a signal of distress.
As the •wiad -was not...