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Jane, of Barmouth
OH the 4th August, i during a fresh wind from the N.W., the .
Arklow Life-boat saved the crew of 5 men ; of the brigantine Jane, of Barmouth, i which had stranded on Jack's Hole Bank. | The boat afterwards...
Life-Boats In the Coronation Review at Spithead
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Category: Photographs
The United States Army Motor Launch M.T.392
JUNE 30TH. - SENNEN COVE, CORNWALL.
At 8.18 in the evening, information was received from the Longships Lighthouse, through Land’s End Radio and the coastguard, that a boat was adrift about half a mile north-west of the...
Services By Two Other Life-Boats
WHILE ON TRIALS Reserve life-boat. At n a.m. on i2th May, 1964, the reserve life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson put out from a ship- builders' yard at Rowhedge, Essex, in a light westerly breeze and a slight sea.
She was...
Category: Services
In Memoriam
AN interesting ceremony took place at Horstead Church, Norfolk, on the 18th July, when a memorial window to the memory of the late Sir Edward Birk- beck, for twenty-five years Chairman of the Institution, was unveiled in the presence of Lady...
Category: Articles
Lord Beaconsfield, of Hull
OCTOBER 17TH. - ARBROATH, ANGUS.
At 11.30 at night the coastguard reported a vessel ashore off Prail Castle, and at 11.45, in calm weather, the motor life-boat John and William Mudie was launched. She found the trawler Lord...
Portrait of a Coxswain
COXSWAIN LIONEL DEREK SCOTT has been coxswain of The Mumbles life-boat since May 1955, when he became one of the youngest coxswains in the service of the RNLI. He had joined the crew in 1947. H; received the Institution's silver medal in...
Category: Articles
The Russian Cargo Vessel Jushnij Bug
RUSSIAN VESSEL At 9.50 a.m. on I4th October, 1964, a shipping agency in Hull telephoned the coxswain superintendent saying that a woman aboard the Russian cargo vessel Jushnij Bug was severely ill and needed medical attention. At 10.30 the...
A Motor Boat, Soloist and Ruskina, a Sailboard and other Boats
Multiple casualties for Atlantic 21 in winds up to Force 10 An arduous service by the West Mersea Atlantic 21 lifeboat, carried out in very rough conditions with the crew using their initiative and local knowledge to assist a large number of...
Hero, of Maldon
On the 3rd December, during a fresh wind from the N.E., the schooner Hero, of Maldon, anchored in distress on a lee shore. Soon afterward she slipped her cables and took the ground.
The -Duncan life-boat, stationed at...