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JANUARY Launches 51 Lives rescued 103 JANUARY 1ST. - GALWAY BAY. The priest of the Inisheer Island was at Kilronan on Inishmore, where the Galway Bay life-boat is stationed. It was necessary that he should return to Inisheer on New Year’s...

THE subject of Anchors is one of such vast importance to the Life-boat Service, and of so deep an interest to the whole sea-faring community, that it is felt that the able Paper, entitled "Anchors: Old Forms and Recent...

. . . and (below) Jimmy Savile at the helm of the Atlantic 21 on show with a 'crew' of Scouts.. - View image in PDF

MAY 25TH. - RAMSGATE. KENT. At 6.34 P.M. a message was received from the Ramsgate coastguard that the R.A.F. command at Manston had reported an aeroplane down in the sea approximately five miles from Dunkirk, and that the naval authorities...

Two lifeboats rescue family and dogs from cliffface in heavy surf Both of Newquay's inshore lifeboats were involved in rescuing two adults, a baby and two dogs from a cliff after they had been cut off by the tide at Bedruthan steps on 30...

THREE BOATS CALLED Bembridge, Isle of Wight, Selsey and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 3.5 p.m. on i8th February, 1964, the coastguard told the Bembridge honorary secretary that a naval Sea Hawk aircraft was missing between St. Catherine's...

IN this article it is proposed to explain the nature and action of stability as con- cisely as the subject permits, without introducing technical terms, beyond those essential to definition, or attempting to go beyond the purely mechanical,...