WE have much pleasure in being able to report that the French Government have decided to place some life-boats on the coasts of France. Preparatory to doing so, it appears to have been decided to obtain every information on the subject, and...
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ONCE again it becomes our duty to draw the attention of our friends to the sta- tistics published by the Board of Trade, relative to the wrecks occurring on our rock-bound shores. The Register, re- cently laid before the public, furnishes...
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SINCE the publication of the last number of The Life-Boat Journal, the Board of Trade has issued its annual Blue Book —so deeply interesting to all taking an interest in sailors and shipping—giving in many admirably arranged tables the...
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Books The Lone Ranger story – from salvage tug to super yacht by John Julian Published by Seafarer Books ISBN 0955024307 Price £19.95 hardback This is the remarkable story of a vessel’s transformation over a period of more than 30 years...
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Treat for Derek: A Dundee boy handed over £16.50 lifeboat and was rewarded with every schoolboy's dream—the chance to join the crew of a lifeboat for the morning. Derek Arthur, aged 12, a pupil at Morgan Academy, has been collecting... - View image in PDF
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Lifeboat Services (from page 263) the whaleboat which had drifted further to leeward to within about 100' from the cliffs near the Cote du Nord hotel.
His crew managed to get a grapnel into the whaleboat and they towed...
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The 1972-1973 national project of the Co-operative Women's Guild is an appeal to raise £6,000 for the purchase of two ILBs for the R.N.L.I. Last year members of the guild visited the London headquarters of the R.N.L.I. and are here... - View image in PDF
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AT 5.28 p.m. on 25th November, 1970, flares were sighted off the Hook Tower, Co. Waterford.
The life-boat Douglas Hyde slipped her moorings at Dunmore East at 5.37 in a southerly gale with a very rough...
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Electric storm INFORMATION THAT MOTOR YACHT Zaire was standing by a yacht in distress three miles south west of Anvil Point came from HM Coastguard to Swanage lifeboat station deputy launching authority at 1915 on Friday, September 24,...