Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford, and Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At 7.34 on the evening of the llth of May, 1958, the Superintendent of the Irish Coast Life-Saving Service passed on to the acting honorary secretary at Rosslare Harbour a message...
The Life-Boat Leaving The Carriage. - View image in PDF
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Cut off by tide TENBY COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of Tenby lifeboat station at 1945 on Sunday May 15,1983, that two people were cut off by the tide at Freshwater East, westward along the coast. Five minutes later the...
ON the 20th of January, 1954, the fishing yawl Poseidon, of Rothesay, left North Shields to fish off Eyemouth.
Early on the morning of the 22nd of January the crew of four found they could not start the engines. They were...
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Top picture - The beautifully restored pulling and sailing lifeboat. Queen Victoria, opens the flotilla closely followed by state-of-the art Severn class lifeboat. Fraser Flyer /above right).. - View image in PDF
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AT twenty minutes past eleven on the night of the 27th of September, 1951— a very dark night with heavy rain squalls—the coxswain of the Dover life-boat, when on his way along the Eastern Harbour Arm, on private busi- ness to the signal...
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Reproduction of the Portrait of a Famous Coxswain.
THE Institution is preparing a Life-boat Calendar for 1931, which will be ready in November. In previous years the calendars have consisted of reproduc- tions of paintings...
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DESPITE COLD NORTH-EAST WINDS Straight off the sea, hundreds of people gathered at the Fishmarket, Macduff, on Saturday April 3, for the naming of the station's 48' 6" Solent lifeboat Douglas Currie.
She was...
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