On the 25th October, 1859, the smack Endeavour, of Portmadoc, drove from her anchors in St. Tudwell's roads, in a N.N.E. gale, and haying carried all her sails away except her foresail, bore up for the neighbourhood of Aberdovey, where...
Brothers and stations unite When Red Bay lifeboat crew were paged, there was no immediate threat to life for the couple on the yacht, Chtoe. Yet at Red Bay station brothers Tom and Paddy McLaughlin remember thinking: 'It was blowing a...
IN the last number of the LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL an account was given of the steps taken to select a new Life-boat, and it may now be of interest to give a few notes as to the way she is built.
For many years, indeed since 1899,...
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IN the early morning of 27th July a number of fishing boats went out from Moelfre, Anglesey. A gale sprang up and all the boats returned but one.
It was a sailing boat with only one man on board, Captain Owen Jones. The...
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The brig Frederick William, of Guernsey, was at anchor off Sidmoutb. on the 5th of September, when the wind and sea rose; and, as she was in danger of parting from her cables, a signal of distress was hoisted. The Life-boat Hemington was...
It is not often that loss of life has to be recorded in con- nection with shipwrecks on the Good- win Sands, so well organised is the Life- boat service in the neighbourhood, but unfortunately the loss of the ketch Yulan, of Harwich, during...
On the 27th March, the smack Howard, of Grimsby, went ashore near the outer buoy, off Scar- borough. On the accident being seen from the shore, the Scarborough life-boat was im- mediately launched, and took off the only man on board the...
Captain Owen Jones and Second Coxswain William Roberts, of Moelfre, Anglesey.. - View image in PDF
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Away! Launch practice for lifeboat R.A. Colby Cubbin No. 1. - View image in PDF
Upper photograph by courtesy of Manx Press Pictures; lower photograph by courtesy of W. - View image in PDF
S. Basnett. - View image in PDF
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IN April 1959 H.M. the Queen appointed the Duke of Northumberland, who is the Treasurer of the Institution, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter..
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