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Deck Level Exchange
At first glance the United States Coast Guard (USCG) and the RNLI appear poles apart. But the world's largest coastguard service and the RNLI have united to set up an exchange programme to help both services improve their ability to save...
Category: Articles
Trained and ready
Volunteers in Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, are running a trial RNLI lifeboat station following the closure of the independent lifeboat service in the town. The crew took part in full RNLI training before the lifeboat went operational in the...
Category: Articles
Your Letters
Enthusiastic thank-you I would like to use THE LIFEBOAT to say a big thank you to the coxswains and crews of the lifeboat stations around our coast for making lifeboat enthusiasts so welcome and showing such hospitality and interest when...
Category: Correspondence
Happy Harry, of Dublin
SEPTEMBER 29TH. - YOUGHAL, CO. CORK, AND HELVICK HEAD, CO. WATERFORD. At four in the afternoon the Ardmore civic guards reported that a schooner, travelling west under sail, seemed to be on fire aft. A strong south-east wind was blowing,...
A Sailing Boat
Kingstown, Co. Dublin.—1st August.
A small sailing boat was reported to drifting in the bay, but nothing was found.—Rewards, £11 6s..
A Small Yacht (1)
Hastings, Sussex.—16th July. A small yacht had stranded, but her crew were rescued by the coastguard rocket life - saving apparatus. — Rewards, £14 6s. Qd..
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JUNE 5TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
Returning from an exercise at 5.30 in the afternoon, the crew of the motor life-boat Thomas and Annie Wade Richards were told by the police that the coastguard had asked if they would...
Intrepid, of Liverpool
A vessel was observed off Whitehaven on the night of the 20th August, with signals of distress flying, while a very strong wind was blowing from the W.S.W., and the sea was running high. The Life-boat Elizabeth was imme- diately launched to...
Golden Charter
GOLD EN CHARTER V Pr e- Paid Funeral Plans THE CARING APPROACH TO A SENSITIVE SUBJECT THERE COMES A TIME in life when it's natural to consider your own funeral...and to think about loved ones and what you'd like to leave them. Not...
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Tony
On the evening of the 2nd March it was learned that the local motor fishing boat Tony had not come back from sea with the rest of the boats. Her owner was the life- boat coxswain, and he and two other men were on board. The coastguard...