After the ceremony: Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Hez/et talks with Richard Evans, former coxswain of Moelfre lifeboat, and Coxswain Jimmy Stewart of Portrush.. - View image in PDF
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In a mode- rate gale with a heavy sea and a strong surf, on the 28th January, the ketch Sarah Ann, of Liverpool, bound from Port Colman to Beaumaris in ballast, became unmanageable, and the master, fearing he could not reach Holyhead in...
photograph by courtesy of Jeff Morris (Below) City of Bradford IV, Humberts new 54' Arun lifeboat, was named by Councillor T. E. Hall, Lord Mayor of Bradford in 1974-75. With him were his grand-daughter and (I.) the Duke of At ho II who... - View image in PDF
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St. Abbs, Berwickshire. — On the morning of the 20th August a strong gale blew up from the south-east, with driving rain and a rough sea. As the local motor fishing boats Victory and Billows Crown were still at sea, the motor life-boat Helen...
Girvan: The 33ft Brede lifeboat Philip Vaux at her naming on June 25.. - View image in PDF
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How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was laid out in 1938.
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69 18 0 «.H_ _i. H_HMM. _H__MM__M_ _MM_Con.st ruction, Repairs, Upkeep and Inspection of Life- boats...
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Launches 37. Lives rescued 14.
SEPTEMBER 1ST. - DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD. During the morning news was received by wireless from the S.S. Irish Willow that she had on board forty-seven survivors from the S.S. Empire...
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On the 26th October, at 9.30 A.M., the Life-boat William Tomlinson was launched to the assistance of the schooner Elizabeth, of Carlisle, which had driven ashore near Seascale, a heavy sea breaking on the beach and it blowing hard at S.S.W....
South Eastern Division Catamaran in Distress A WELL-REEFED CATAMARAN making heavy weather two-and-a-half miles off St Margaret's, Kent, was seen by the Coastguard at 9.10 a.m. on Sunday, October 21, 1973. Dover lifeboat station was put...
Appledore, North Devon December 5.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow January 19 and February 25.
Arranmore, Co. Donegal December 14, 17 and 21.
Ballycotton, Co. Cork December 4, 5, January 6 and...
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