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NOVEMBER 25TH. - SENNEN COVE PENLEE, AND THE LIZARD, CORN: WALL. After a naval and air battle in the Channel some ten miles off Wolf Rock Light, these three life-boats were asked by the coastguard to go out and search for survivors.
Other IRB Launches
In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded on pages 646 and 647, the following launches on service were made during the months December 1968, January and February, 1969, inclusive: Aberystwyth,...
Category: Services
52' Arun Class Lifeboat (Beam 17') Is Self-Righting First Three Boats Built of Cold Moulded Wood; Later Ones Will Be of Grp Twin Caterpillar Marine Diesel Engines Each De
52' Arun class lifeboat (beam 17') is self-righting. First three boats built of cold moulded wood; later ones will be of grp. Twin Caterpillar marine diesel engines, each developing 460 bhp, give speed of about 19 knots.
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Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services
Three fishermen saved with just minutes to spare A;L long service in a severe gale and heavy, broken seas has earned Achill Island's Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic, Brian Patten, the RNLI's Silver Medal. The remainder of the crew will...
Category: Services
The Homecoming - Toshiba Wave Warrior
The homecoming - Toshiba Wave Warrior crosses the finish line in Southampton at 0339 on 16 July 1997.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Past and Present
25 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT December 1965 Scottish Station Closed The life-boat station at Newburgh, Aberdeenshire, was closed on 30th September. The life-boat had not been called out on service for nearly four years, and it...
Category: Articles
Mr. E. J. Bluett, Isles of Scilly
Mr. Edmund J. Bluett, who died on llth January last, was Honorary Secre- tary of the Scilly Islands Branch for thirty-six years. He was appointed in May, 1882, and retired in September, 1918. During those thirty-six years the Life-boats...
Category: Obituaries
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
HAUXLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND. — A new life-boat on PEAKE'S design has been recently placed at Hauxley by the National Life-boat Institution, in lieu of the one previously stationed there, which was found to be too heavy, and to draw too much...
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Bravest Act of Life-Saving
THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a life- boat crew in 1960 has been won by Coxswain Patrick Power of Dunmore East, Co. Waterford, for the rescue of the only man on board a disabled barge on the 4th of...
Category: Awards