Main picture: The Dunmore East lifeboat St Patrick, built in 1974.. - View image in PDF
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NEW life-boats in Scotland, Ireland and England—at Longhope in the Orkneys, at Howth in the Irish Republic, and at Weston-super-Mare in Somerset—were named during the last quarter.
The money to build the Longhope life-boat...
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By Mr. Robert H. Mahony, Honorary Secretary of the Ballycotton Station.
ON Friday, 7th February, 1936, a gale from the south-east sprang up on the south coast of Ireland, with a very heavy sea. The gale increased until,...
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at the annual meeting of the R. N.L.I.
on 18th May, Mr. Derek Scott, of Mumbles, who holds the B.E.M., the Institution's silver medal and bar and the bronze medal, belongs to the new generation of life-boatmen. He was...
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The Norwegian Life-boat Institution Norsk Selskab til Skibbrudnes Redning, which was founded in 9th July, 1891, will celebrate its 75th anniversary in September in Oslo.
The celebration will also mark the completion of...
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Shortly before 1 A.M. on the 6th March, it was reported that a vessel about a mile to the north of the harbour was making signals of distress. There was a strong S.S.E. gale at the time and the sea was very heavy. With great promptness the...
BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—It will be remembered by our readers that on the occasion of the Jubilee of our late beloved QUEEN VICTORIA, in the year 1887, the Committee of Management, with the sanction of Her Most Gracious Majesty, who was the...
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Sun and the Moon control Time and Tide, be master TIDEMASTER MOONPHASE Chronometer accuracy * Luminised hands * Automatic Calendar Exact phase of the moon displayed Spring and Neap tides at i glance *Tide bezel* shows daily tides *...
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Fig, 1: Compressed air bottle, with pneumatic valve box at end, is lowered on to its mounting cradles by British Hovercraft conversion crew, Brian Augustus (left) and Leslie Harris.
Note new square stretcher hatch into deck... - View image in PDF
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(above) Round Tablers and their families aboard theNewhaven HfeboatLouis Marchesi of Round Table which their President, Roderick Burn, handed over to Captain J. B.
Leworthy, a member of the Committee of Management, at the... - View image in PDF
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