Galway Bay.—At 10.30 on the morn- ing of the 1st of June, 1954, the life- boat coxswain noticed that the trawler St. Kieran, of Galway, had gone aground at Straw Island about one mile east of Kilronan. At eleveno'clock the life-boat...
Wells IRB helping a Norwich couple in trouble when their sailing boat capsized at Blakeney, Norfolk, on 31st August, 1968. A member of the IRB crew, Mr. Tony Pulford, has gone overboard to assist.. - View image in PDF
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OCTOBER 29TH - 30TH. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. The laden Norwegian tanker Spenanger, of 7,248 tons, bound from Milford to the Clyde with an escort, got off her course and ran on the Carrick Rock, in Port St. Mary Bay. The weather was...
Visit to the Faroes: Grace Paterson Ritchie, the 70' Clyde lifeboat normally stationed at Kirkwall, lying in Sand Harbour.. - View image in PDF
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GOURDON, N.B.—On the invitation of the local residents, a Life-boat Station has been formed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION at Gourdon, a fishing vil- lage about 12 miles north of Montrose.
Shipwrecks are said to be...
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This photograph captures the moment that our Kinsale and Courtmacsherry Harbour lifeboat volunteers saved 30 people from a sinking training vessel off the Cork coast
Both lifeboat crews were...
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