PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN 130 NOTES OF THE QUARTER 131 TRIBUTE TO LIFE-BOAT DESIGNER 133 THE WRECK OF THE ANZIO I 134 CREW THROWN OUT OF IRB 136 AWARD FOR SIXTEEN YEAR OLD BOY 138 SIDELIGHTS ON STATIONS AND PLACES 139 THIRTY-FIFTH CIVIL SERVICE...
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Around 400 people drown in the UK every year; a further 140 in Ireland. So what is the RNLI doing about it?
Our courageous volunteer lifeboat crews, lifeguards and flood rescue teams...
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Take me to your lifeboat...
Hunstanton lifeboatmen examine what at first they thought was a UFO. The huge 'floating spaceship', fitted with sophisticated equipment and electronics, was recovered during a call-out in... - View image in PDF
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BY the death of Mr. Ernest Armstrong, of Eastbourne, on the 3rd of June, 1952, at the age of 78, the Life-boat Service has lost one of its most devoted and energetic friends, and the committee of management a col- league whose help and...
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IT has for a long period been the opinion of many naval officers, that every man-of war should be provided with an efficient life-boat; and we have from time to time advocated the same in this Journal. We are glad to know that there is now a...
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JULY 30TH. - FENIT, CO. KERRY. A Belfast steamer had been torpedoed, and her crew had got away in the ship’s boats, and one of them was missing, but while the life-boat was searching for her she got ashore at Clifton. Bay, Co. Galway. -...
O 11 the morning of the 3rd November the local fishing fleet was out and was over- taken by bad weather. The sea rose rapidly, and at 9.15 A.M. a whole S.S.E.
gale was blowing, with a rough sea.
As the...
— At about 2 A.M. on the 3rd October, the Cox- swain of the No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane was called up and informed that a vessel near the North Bank had dragged her anchors, and was burning flares for assistance. He hastened to the Boathouse,...
On the same day the barque Spectator, of Whitby, was ob- served from Yarmouth to part from her cables, and after coming into collision with another vessel, to drive in the direc- tion of the Scroby Sands. The Mark Lane life-boat went off...
THE famous life-boat model made by James Beeching of Great Yarmouth, which won the prize of 100 guineas offered by the Duke of Northumber- land in 1851 for the best design of a life-boat, can be seen today in the Municipal Museum of Science...
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