TENBY.—During a strong gale from the S.E. and a heavy sea on the morning of the 1st January, 1888, signals of distress were shown by the ketch Louisa, of Cardiff, bound for Tenby with a cargo of coal, which was lying at anchor in Caldy Koads...
100 years ago From The Life-Boat of 1896 In 1995 Dan Laoghaire received the first Trent class lifeboat in Ireland. The contrast between the sailing lifeboat involved in the 1895 Kingstown disaster recounted below and herl 995 high-tech...
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AFTER A COLLISION At 6.40 p.m. on 28th November, 1964, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that the motor vessel Royal Gate had been in collision one mile west of Chequer buoy and was making for the beach in a moderate...
Petertead, Aberdeenshire. — At 2.25 P.M. on the 13th July, 1939, a message was received from the Rattray Head coastguard, through the Peterhead coastguard, stating that a steam drifter was ashore at Rattray Head.
A light...
Contents Volume L Number 502 RNLINews... 223/231 Lifeboat Services 225/237 Past and Present. 230 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLL Director and Secretary: REAR ADMIRAL W J GRAHAM CB MNI 150th Anniversary of the wreck of the Forfarshire— Grace...
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David Scott Cowper's ex- Watson class lifeboat Mabel E. Ho/land beached at Depot Bay, Fort Ross to carry out temporary repairs during her epic cicumnavigation via the North West Passage. One of the illustrations from Northwest Passage... - View image in PDF
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Mersey class lifeboat Margaret Jean enters the water for the first time after her official naming ceremony. - View image in PDF
Photo Gilbert Hampton Photography. - View image in PDF
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THE life-boat journal on the 1st of January, 1858, in describing a wreck which occurred at Brighton on the 8th of October, 1857, reported: "There were at that time three life-boats at Brighton; one, we believe, belonging to the town...
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AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall, on Tuesday, the 23rd day of March, The Eight Honourable Lord George F. Hamilton, G.C.S.I., in the Chair, the...
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RescUe Here is just a handful of incidents from around the uK and Roi to give an insight into the thousands of lifeboat rescues carried out each year. see pages 20–27 for rescues marked and page 13 for a roundup of lifeguard activity....
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