The Duke of Kent, who is President of the R.N.L.I., thinks that the idea of creating a form of membership of the Institution for individual supporters is a very good scheme that would give subscribers a sense of participation. He has...
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(Above) Wheelhouse, looking forward from steering position past wheel and compass in its binnacle to the engine room after bulkhead.
Various control switches and the revolution counters are under the coxswain's eye.... - View image in PDF
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Seven saved FALMOUTH, Sunday May 24, 1987: The 56ft yacht Sule Skerry was in the Helford River with a heavy swell running when a rope fouled her propeller and she was driven into a rocky cleft at the foot of the cliffs at Durgan, near... - View image in PDF
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JANUARY 9TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON. NORFOLK. At 1 0 A.M. an explosion was heard to the north-east of the life-boat station, and the Gorleston coastguard reported that the Caister Look-out had seen aircraft diving towards the sea,...
On the 27th of November, 1954, the Liberian tanker World Concord broke in two in the Irish sea. The St.
David's, Pembrokeshire, life-boat rescued thirty-five men from her fore- part, and the Rosslare Harbour,...
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—On the morning of the 26th January the coastguard reported that rockets had been seen by the Lynn Wells lightship from a steamer aground on the Dog's Head Sands. She was the s.s. Olavus, of Hull, bound in ballast...
St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—10th January.
On the night of the 9/10th January a man in Tenby picked up a wireless call for help from the steam trawler William Humphries, of Milford.
This message, which...
Coxswain C. D. Mann, of Aldeburgh, died on 15th February last, at the age of sixty. He came of a family of Life- boatmen. Both his grandfather and father served in the Aldeburgh Boat before him, and he succeeded his father as Second Coxswain...
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Mr Michael O'Donaghue (Baltimore) who served as coxswain for over 18 years and as bowman for nearly 12 years.
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JANUARY 9TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 11.13 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel 2 1/2 miles S.E. of No. 85 light-vessel, appeared to be in distress. An easterly breeze was blowing,with a moderate sea...