GOUROCK, RENFREWSHIRE. Just before midnight on the 4th of September, 1942, the naval tug Romsey, with a crew of 20, dragged her anchor off Gourock pier, and the outwardbound steamer Lairdsburn ran her down.
She sank in a...
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With the help of Mr. Clayton Love, jnr., member of the Committee of Management, who was Admiral of the Royal Cork Yacht Club at the time, the Dublin Office has acquired a quantity of special First Day Covers (as illustrated) for sale at 40p... - View image in PDF
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Did you see Saving Lives at Sea?
The Summer BBC documentary was a big hit with viewers, drawing 3M in its first episode. For the first time ever, film crews were given an access-all-areas pass to the RNLI's stations, lifeboats...
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I. By JOAN PATUICIA ROSE JEFFERIS (13), The Circus Church School, Portsmouth, Hants Why I should like to be a Life-boatman.
THERE are many noble callings in life in which workers have lit lamps of self-sacrifice,...
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Emlyn Hughes, the former England football captain, while visiting his home town of Barrow-in-Furness, toppled a pile of pennies which had been growing on the bar of Roa Island Hotel. Barrow businessmen Peter Jackson and Mike McKenzie doubled... - View image in PDF
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A busy month for St Ives On 21 May 2006, relief Mersey class Royal Shipwright attended the 21m Testerossa, 27 miles north west of St Ives in near-galeforce winds. Sennen Cove's Tyne class Norman Salvesen joined in to achieve 5 knotsto St...
On behalf of the Fleet Air Arm Officers' Association a cheque for £200 was presented to Derek Sargent, coxswain of the Weymouth lifeboat.
Standing left to right, Bob Runyeard, crew member, second officer Aly Husk,... - View image in PDF
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Captain Nigel Dixon, R.N., has been appointed Secretary of the Royal National Life-boat Institution. He will succeed Mr. Stirling Whorlow, O.B.E., who is retiring at the end of the year from the post of Secretary after nearly 40 years in the...
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— The Whitby motor fishing boat Pilot Me was unable to make her home port on the morning of 8th April owing to a moderate northerly gale and very rough sea. She decided to run for Scarborough, and this information having been passed on by...
FEBRUARY 5TH. - CROMARTY. At 6.25 A.M. the Burghead coastguard reported distress signals from a vessel aground one mile west of Findhorn, and the motor life-boat James Macfee was launched at 6.45 A.M. A moderate S.W. wind was blowing, with a...