LIFE-BOAT OUT FOR 17 HOURS Galway Bay, Co. Galway. At 11.10 on the evening of Thursday the 29th of August, 1963, the honorary secretary received a telephone message from the harbour master at Galway that the 35-foot launch St. Patrick of...
Yacht on bar THE AUXILIARY COASTGUARD On Watch at Penrhyn on Tuesday April 17 saw, at 1155, a small yacht under outboard engine with her mainsail up making for the River Teifi. It was a fine day with a clear sky and the sea in the bay was...
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THE story of the services rendered by the Life-boats in direct connexion with the war cannot be told until the end of the war. When it is unfolded it will be seen that the Institution has carried out, both in the letter and in the spirit,...
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WEST HARTLEPOOL. — On the 25th March a strong wind was blowing from E.N.E., and in a very high sea the coxswain of the Life-boat Forester's Pride saw the schooner Johannes, of Grossefehn, in the bay at 9 A.M. At about 3 o'clock in...
Sub-zero escort THE 445-TON CARGO VESSEL Mare, of Honduras, on route from Rotterdam to Dundalk with a cargo of iron ore, ran into difficulties on the night of January 12, 1987 when her load shifted and she developed a 20 to 30 degree list,...
THE photograph on page 132 shows Coxswain Henry Blogg, of Cromer, with a dog which he rescued from the Italian steamer Monte Nevoso on 16th October of last year. Coxswain Blogg received the Institution's silver medal for this service, in...
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Sir Johnstone Wallace, K.B.E., D.L., J.P.
By the death of Sir Johnstone Wallace, K.B.E., D.L., J.P., of Newcastle, on 9th November last, the Institution has lost an old and valued supporter. For many years he was closely...
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WE regret that in the list of holders of the Gold Badge in the abridged Annual Report for 1928, the name of Mr. B. J. Kirkham, Honorary Secretary i at New Brighton, was unfortunately omitted. The omission was pointed out in time to be...
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Solar panels on the roof of RNLI College in Poole, Dorset, are reducing our carbon footprint and saving money.
Within 3 weeks of installation, the panels had generated their first megawatt hour of power – worth £430....
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