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Let's campaign to improve safety at sea! As an RNLI member, I was interested to read the Director's message in the Winter issue of THE LIFEBOAT and the Newspoint on page 147 suggesting that the RNLI is at last looking at ways to...
Category: Correspondence
The Wreck of Two Welsh Trawlers. Six Awards for Gallant Service
IN the early morning of 14th February, with a heavy sea running, a Welsh steam-trawler, the Tenby Castle, went ashore on the rocks in Clifden Bay, Con- nemara, on the west of Ireland, a coast where there are many rocky islands, the great...
Category: Awards
Overlord
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At eight o'clock on the morning of the 26th of May, 1957, the Needles coastguard telephoned that the yacht Overlord, of Southampton, was in difficulties eight and a half miles south-west of...
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Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. — 3rd June.
Rockets were reported, but nothing could be found.—Rewards, £8 4s. 6d..
Notes of the Quarter
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 31st March, 1954 - 78,633 Notes of the Quarter THE first of the major flag days of the...
Category: Articles
Drakedene
Plymouth, Devon.—At 9.20 on the night of the 4th of February, 1951, the King's Harbour Master reported that the motor vessel Drakedene, of Cardiff, with a crew of nine, had dragged her anchors and was on the rocks near Jennycliff. At...
The Figurehead Carried By the Trifolium When She Came Ashore at Land's End In 1914.
The figurehead carried by the Trifolium when she came ashore at Land's End in 1914.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Remarkably, the Whole Service Was Caught on Camera By Eastbourne's Honorary Press Officer,
Remarkably, the whole service was caught on camera by Eastbourne's honorary press officer, Eddie Buckland. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mary
FAULTY PUMP At 5.24 p.m. on 27th June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been fired by a trawler two miles off Bury Holm in a southerly direction. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched at 5.37 in a...
The Problem of Launching at St. Ives
The first St. Ives life-boat was built locally and was stationed there in 1840.
In 1860 she was replaced by a pulling and sailing life-boat of the self-righting type built by the Institution, and up to 1933 the life-boats...
Category: Articles