BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT BARRY DOCK DECEMBER 6TH. - BARRY DOCK, GLAMORGANSHIRE. During the morning a whole gale was blowing from the north-west at Barry Dock on the south coast of Wales, and at 10.30 the life-boat station received news from...
Representative pages remembering lifeboat men from all parts of these islands who gave. - View image in PDF
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POINT or AYR (FLINTSHIRE), and FORMBY (LANCASHIRE).—As previously mentioned in The Life-boat, the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, having taken over these stations from the Mersey Dock and Harbour Board, has replaced the Life-boats on...
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Mr. Stanhope Bone, who died on the 30th of October, 1959, at the age of 79, was the Institution's Surveyor of Life- boats from 1929 to 1940. He first joined the Institution's surveying staff in 1912 and later served as R.A.S.L. at...
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On the 4th June, at 4 A.M., during a fresh breeze from the N. and misty rain, the Life-boat Bradford and steam-tug Aid went out in reply to signal guns from the Gull Lightship. They proceeded through the Old Cudd Channel, and round to the...
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight - At 9.36 p.m. on loth June, 1967, it was reported that a cabin cruiser had gone aground in Scratchells bay. After further investigation, the life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe and the IRB were launched at 10.59 in...
Reasons to celebrate The opening of Ramsey's new hoathouse in a ceremony on 6 April was much welcomed by all.
The new boathouse. situated at the north end of the south promenade, has been specially designed to house the...
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.—On the : evening of the 30th January, at about 8 P.M., a large vessel was observed to have 1 struck on the Parthingwy Rocks, near Moelfre. The Lady Vivian Life-boat, which had been sent to that station only a few weeks previously, was...
THE crew of the Walmer life-boat went to London on Thursday, 27th of November, to receive the medals awarded to them by the French life-boat society, La societe centrale de sauvetage des naufrages for the rescue on the 13th of January, 1952,...
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