Arklow, Co. Wicldow.—At five o'clock on the evening of the 1st of December, 1950, distress signals were seen three miles north of Arklow Harbour. Five minutes later the life-boat Inbhear Mor was launched in a very rough sea with a...
FEBRUARY 28TH . - POOLBEG , CO .DUBLIN. At 5.30 P.M. a resident of Ringsend reported that a small open boat was adrift in the fairway of the River Liffey, east of Pigeon House Fort. A strong S.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea and an...
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(Above) After her naming ceremony at Shoreham on Thursday, May 2, by Lady Egremont, president of the ladies' lifeboat guilds, Mary Gabriel, 37' 6" Rather Class, was taken to her station, Hoylake, in Cheshire. A service of... - View image in PDF
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REAR-ADMIRAL R. St. V. Sherbrooke, V.C., C.B., D.S.O., has been co-opted to the Committee of Management.
Rear-Admiral Sherbrooke, who lives in Newark, Notts., joined the Royal Navy in 1913 and was awarded the Victoria Cross...
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Coxswain Daniel Kirkpatrick, of the Longhope, Orkneys, life-boat T.G.B., who was lost with his crew on the night of 18th March, 1969, while on service (see page 594). He was awarded his first silver medal in 1959for saving 14 from the... - View image in PDF
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Sittingbourne's celebrated whistling postman, Dale Howling, completed his eighth annual charity cycle ride for Sittingbourne branch in just two days in May last year. Dale cycled nearly 200 miles visiting en route all eight Kent lifeboat... - View image in PDF
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Maldon Little Ship Club's annual sponsored row, held on Boxing Day, produced a magnificent £9,760 in aid of the lifeboats - bringing the total raised by the sailing club in the last six years to £48,000.
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High and dry Tobermory's Elizabeth Fairtie Ramsey launched three times between 620am and 5pm on 10 March 2006 to a 16m fishing vessel run aground and listing heavily off Calve Island in Strathclyde (see above).
When the...
MARINE DIVISION Suppliers of OUTBOARD ENGINES RNLI for over 25 years to the INSHORE LIFEBOATS £ W As a result of an appeal to raise funds by the Lawnflite garden machinery division of E.P.BARRUS Ltd.
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