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French Life-Boat Disaster

Date: December 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 386

THE life-boat Vice-Amiral Schwerer stationed at Etel in France capsized near the entrance to Lorient harbour on the 3rd of October, 1958. Her whole crew of five, consisting of the coxswain, mechanic, radio-operator and two other members of...

Category: Articles

Juan Ferrer

Date: March 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 407

CLUNG TO WRECKAGE Penlee, and Sennen Cove, Cornwall.

At 2.58 a.m. on 23rd October, 1963, the coastguard at St. Just was informed by Land's End radio that a Spanish vessel had gone aground near Mount's...

Gael Force

Date: Autumn 2010

Volume: 61

Issue: 593

Tá na báid ar snámh san fharraige, Slán abhaile go dtaga na fir. The boats are floating on the sea, May the men come safely home.
Irish folk song

An island on western Europe’s extreme,...

Category: Articles

A Bronze-Medal Service at Longhope

Date: October 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 327

AT 7.20 on the evening of 21st February, 1936, a large trawler was seen to have gone ashore at Brims Ness, at the entrance of the aith in which the life- boat house is situated. The motor life-boat herself, however, the Thomas McCunn, was...

Category: Services

January

Date: 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1946

JANUARY Launches 51 Lives rescued 103 JANUARY 1ST. - GALWAY BAY. The priest of the Inisheer Island was at Kilronan on Inishmore, where the Galway Bay life-boat is stationed. It was necessary that he should return to Inisheer on New Year’s...

Category: Services

Our Sailors

Date: November 1886

Volume: 13

Issue: 142

THE tide is full, the wind is fair, The hour is striking now, And word goes round, with hearty cheer, "Up anchor to the bow." The capstan creaks as bars are manned By sailors stout and true; The captain smiles as from the strand...

Category: Poetry

(Left, Lower) a Clutch of Waveneys

Date: Winter 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 543

(Left, top) Liam checks the cover on one of the first Atlantics to come up for sale. (Left, lower) A clutch of Waveneys at the Depot quay. The outer boat.

44-0 / 7, was due to leave Tilbury for New Zealand in March where... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Henry Blogg of Cromer

Date: Winter 1981

Volume: 47

Issue: 475

Henry Blogg of Cromer was awarded more medals for gallantry than any other RNLI lifeboatmen: three gold and four silver. He served in Cromer crew from 1894 and was coxswain from 1909 to 1947, through two world... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Twelfth International Lifeboat Conference By Patrick Howarth

Date: Summer 1975

Volume: 44

Issue: 453

'Most of our problems are common — let us solve them together' by Patrick Howarth THE CITY OF HELSINKI became associated with international conferences in the minds of millions in July of this year through the great assembly of...

Category: Meetings

Classified Advertisements

Date: Summer 1978

Volume: 46

Issue: 465

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ACCOMMODATION BLACKPOOL. Don't stay at home cooking! Enjoy your Christmas this year with Wilf and Tina Briggs at...

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