Howth, Co. Dublin. At 6.45 on the evening of the 17th of May, 1958, the harbour master passed on to the honorary secretary a message that a boy had fallen over the cliffs half a mile north-east of the Bailey lighthouse. At 7.5 the life-boat...
(Left) E. Mangold (r.) was presented with a plaque earlier this year by George Powell, organising secretary North London. Mr Mangold, who is in his mid 70s, has raised £925 for the RNLI since he first collected for Wood Green Branch in... - View image in PDF
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NOVEMBER 1 8 - 2 0TH. - BALTIMORE, COURTMACSHERRY, AND BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. About 10.30 A.M. a wireless message, which had been picked up at Cork, was received at Baltimore that the steamer Nestlea, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, had been attacked...
Athina B after she had finally been driven ashore on Brighton Beach. The entrance to Shoreham Harbour is beyond the distant power station chimneys (top left).. - View image in PDF
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Wicklow, and Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—• At 10.12 on the morning of the 8th of December, 1954, the Wicklow life- boat's motor mechanic heard a mes- sage from the Portpatrick radio station that the Swedish steamer Heimdal was drifting near...
(Below) Port Isaac's new D Class ILB was dedicated on Easter Sunday by the Vicar of Port Isaac, The Reverend F. J. W. Maddock. She was the gift of Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Round Tables and was presented by their area chairman. John... - View image in PDF
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For years, students and teachers at Atlantic College have volunteered for a lifeboat crew ready to launch off the south Wales coast. But now the College has a new lifesaving focus. While the lifeboat station has now closed, students have...
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On the 25th Jan. the brig ! Ercole, of Naples, was descried off St.Anne's Head in a distressed and (in the i judgment of the crew) hopeless condition ; they haying, in consequence of her dis- I abled state, anchored their vessel on a...
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Dover, Kent. At 4.41 on the after- noon of the 16th of May, 1959, the coastguard at Sandgate informed the honorary secretary that two people were cut off by the tide at Big Fall, St.
Margaret's Bay. After talking with...