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Below. the Icelandic Lifeboat Service
Below. The Icelandic lifeboat service is funded and operated in a similar way to the RNLI, and has acquired an ex-RNLI lifeboat. The 70ft ex-Clyde class (previously Grace Paterson Ritchie and based at Kirkwall) is pictured leaving the UK to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
May (1)
MAY MEETING RINGFORD, Co. ANTRIM. Two men went out in a very small boat, on the 27th October, 1941, to lift lobster pots. A moderately strong and squally off-shore wind was blowing and the sea was choppy. Apparently the small boat got into...
Category: Services
Stranraer: Representatives Oflnd Coope Alloa Brewery Company
Stranraer: Representatives oflnd Coope Alloa Brewery Company and the Co-operative Society in Scotland, Mr West, Mr McCulloch, Mr Young and Mr Thomson, were present at Stranraer boathouse on Saturday July 23 for the handing over of the new D... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Imbibing on the Sands
"A party of trustees, with their wives and daughters, agree to meet at some commodious hotel in the vicinity of a life-boat station, the day is fine, and the party are perhaps themselves rowed out a couple of miles—a daring deed, which...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Mary Ada Short
During the evening of the 14th November the s.s.
Mary Ada Short, of Sunderland, whilst attempting to enter the harbour, became unmanageable and drove ashore behind the old South Pier. At the request of the owners the South...
The S.S. Newhall Hills
TANKER ON FIRE Ramsgate, Kent.—At 7.27 in the morning of the 24th of May, 1947, the coastguard telephoned a message from the S.S. Newhall Hills, of San Francisco, that she was on fire to the southward of South Falls Buoy, the result of an ex...
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Violet Stephenson
Boulmer, Northumberland. At 8.20 a.m. on 25th September, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that some of the local fishing cobles were still at sea in deteriorating weather conditions and might need assistance to return to the...
Elephant
The tubular life-boat was likewise the means of rendering good service to another shipwrecked crew on the 19th October.
During the previous night a very severe gale had swept over Liverpool and its neigh- bourhood, and...