In the year 1854 a French ship, named the Aigle, was lost on the Spanish Main ; but, owing to the exertions of Captain JONES, of Portmadoc, then in command of the British ship Enterprise, the crew of the Aigle were fortunately saved. Captain...
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JANUARY 4TH. - GALWAY BAY. During the morning news was received from Valentia Radio that the S.S. Barrister, of Liverpool, was ashore off Skird Rocks. The crew were called out at once and were on board the life-boat about ten o’clock, but...
WE are indebted to the courtesy of Mr. R. EARP, of Austin Friars, for the follow- ing very quaint and interesting descrip- tion of a method of constructing a life-belt, extracted by him from an old Black Letter book published nearly three...
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Miss Clare Francis, MBE, guest speaker at the presentation of awards meeting, ended her speech by making a surprise presentation of her own. On behalf of the whole crew of ADC Accutrac, the yacht which she skippered in the Whitbread... - View image in PDF
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Ix the last number of this Journal attention was drawn to the valuable co-operation of the Man- chester Branch, and the important services rendered to the Life-boat cause in that city, resulting, as was shown, in the presentation of...
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MAY 8TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
Shortly after 4 A.M. a message was received from the naval authorities, through the coastguard, asking for the life-boat to meet a trawler due at St. Ives at 5 o’clock with survivors on board...
Men and women around the coast give up their time to train for and carry out lifeboat launches A Silver Medal-winning rescue by Cteethorpes and Number was featured in the autumn 2004 issue of the Lifeboat. As with many, the Cleethorpes crew...
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DORA BRY The Full Length Walk-in Bath you can also shower in! "It's so simple & easy-it's amazing" Dora Bryan OBE The only normal size walk-in bath th.it you can lie down in.
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The bronze medal foi gallantry has been awarded to Coxswain John Cornish, of Ramsey, Isle of Man, and its thanks on vellum to the acting motor mechanic, for rescuing thirteen lives from an Aberdeen trawler which had gone ashore in a Tery...
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After six days of gales from the S.E. to S.W. the wind changed on the 15th December to the N.W., blowing a moderate gale, with squalls of rain and a heavy, confused sea. During the afternoon the coxswain saw, about six miles S.E., a tramp...