IN the June, 1968, number of THE LIFE-BOAT three companies which have given the R.N.L.I. valuable financial support over a number of years were mentioned.
Continuing the series, we describe three more...
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Wick, Caithness-shire - At 3.10 p.m. on 24th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Boy Peter was ashore on the south side of Proudfoot.
The fishing vessel Bluebell was also...
FEBRUARY 1ST. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At 4.6 P.M. the naval authorities at Penzance sent a message through the coastguard asking for the life-boat to go out with a doctor and bring in from a steamer shipwrecked men whom she...
Sick man taken off in gale AN IRISH CONTAINER SHIP, Bell Rover, contacted Dover coastguard on the evening of Tuesday November 20,1984, seeking medical advice about one of her crew members who was sick. After consultation with a doctor, the...
Mallaig, Inverness-shire - At 10.20 a.m. on I2th January, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a ship was aground at Barony Point, Morvern. The life-boat E. M. M. Gordon Cubbin left her moorings at 10.30 in a fresh north...
THE Belfast branch of the Institution had a stand at the Royal Ulster Agricultural Show on 25th-28th May.
Models of pulling and sailing and motor life-boats were shown, photographs of famous coxswains and wrecks, and items...
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THE summer of this year has not been as busy a time for the life-boats as the record summer of 1948, but during June, July and August life-boats were launched 169 times and rescued 92 lives.
In 88 of those 169 launches the...
Category: Services
Oil rig supply vessel SHETLAND COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Lerwick lifeboat station at 0305 on Friday October 27, 1978, that the oil rig supply vessel Anglia Shore was ashore on Score Point on the north east side of the...
Trawler taking water A FRENCH TRAWLER, Enfant de Bretagne, broadcast a Mayday call on the afternoon of Tuesday, December 2, 1975, saying that she was taking water in heavy weather in position 320°M 18 miles from St Ives Head. This...
TRIALS of the prototype of a new tractor for launching life-boats—a powerful Fowler tractor with a 95 h.p. diesel engine—were held at Aberystwyth in November. Members of the com- mittee of management and officials of the Institution were...
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