THE false alarms which call out life- boats are very varied. On the 26th October last, with a gale blowing, the Plymouth motor life-boat put out— because a cow had gone wandering.
At 6.30 in the evening the coastguard at...
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Ramsey, IsIe-of-Man.—At 9.50 on the morning of the 17th of February, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the motor tanker Ben Henshaw, of London (which was two miles to the north-east) was flying a signal for a doctor. As the weather was...
John Stewart Campbeltown coxswain John Stewart has been awarded Miss Maud Smith's Reward for Courage in Memory of John, 7th Earl of Hardwicke for the rescue of two people from the fishing vessel Sincerity (Summer 2001 issue, p. 10). The...
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Dublin.
Centenary Meeting.
THE Centenary Meeting was held on 24th March. The Right Hon. Andrew Jameson, P.C., D.L., the Chairman of the Branch, presided, and, in the course of his speech moving the...
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St. Andrews.
In the middle of the night of March 8th the steam trawler Loch Long, of Aberdeen, went ashore in a heavy snow squall on the reef of rocks known as Balcomie Briggs. A gale was blowing; the sea was rough ; and...
TRAWLER BREAKS FROM MOORINGS IN STRONG GALE Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 1.5 on the afternoon of the 5th February, 1963, Ilfracombe radio station informed the honorary secretary that the principal keeper of the Tuskar Rock lighthouse...
APRIL 27TH - 29TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE ; ABERYSTWYTH, CARDIGANSHIRE ; PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE ; AND FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.
While the motor fishing vessel Provider was on passage in ballast from Caernarvon to...
Boy on rocks FOUR MEMBERS of the 1LB crew were working at Tramore pier, Co. Waterford, close by the boathouse at 7 p.m. on June 28, 1973, when a youth came up, greatly agitated, to tell them that a boy had been trapped on a small rock islet...
THE GLASGOW Lewis and Harris Association Cup, presented annually to the person or persons who during the year had done most to bring credit or honour to the island, was awarded last year to Coxswain Calum MacDonald and the crew of Stornoway...
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Governors Shoreline Storm Force Thank you As the New Year begins, the number of RNLI members now stands at a record 197,000. We would like to say thank you to every one of you for supporting the RNLI in 1991 - and look forward to your...
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