KINGSTOWN, IRELAND.—This Life-boat station was transferred to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION by the Dublin Billast Board in January, 1862.
In April of the same year the Institution replaced the Life-boat then at...
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In response to three guns fired from the Gorton lightship the Lowestoft Life-boat was also launched at about 9 A.M. on the 17th December and was towed out by the tug Rainbow. The wind was blowing half a gale from the N.E. accompanied by a...
Whether people walk by the sea, have fun on it, or save lives in it, we want them to stay safe. Lifeguards like those pictured on our front page face tough training to prepare them: high standards of fitness, safety knowledge...
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On the afternoon of the 24th February a vessel was observed to run ashore close to Kings- down. The crew of the Life-boat Charles Hargrave were assembled, and with the assistance of the haul-off warp the boat was launched, and proceeded to...
A LIFE-BOAT exhibition was held at Watford, Herts, from 2nd October to 9th October as the principal part of a life-boat week, organized by the new honorary secretary of the branch, Mr.
H. Mellon, M.R.T.S. The exhibition was...
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AT about midnight on 19th April an urgent message was signalled from the island of Papa Stour, in the Shetlands, asking for a doctor and a nurse to be sent at once to the help of a boy, four years old, who had fractured his...
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The Story of the Barmouth Lifeboats by Jeff Morris A recent addition to the series of comprehensive booklets from the prolific Honorary Archivist of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts Society, this time chronicling the history of Barmouth's...
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NOVEMBER 1 8 - 2 0TH. - BALTIMORE, COURTMACSHERRY, AND BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. About 10.30 A.M. a wireless message, which had been picked up at Cork, was received at Baltimore that the steamer Nestlea, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, had been attacked...
At 4 A.M., on the 13th September, flares were seen in the direction of the Middle Cross Sand. The same Life-boat was launched, and proceeded over the sands through the breakers, in the direction in which the lights had been last seen; but no...
KINGSTOWN.—On the 25th January, at 9.30 A.M., a vessel was observed on the outside of the Kish Bank, about two miles distant from the Kish Lightship. The coxswain of the Kingstown Life-boat Princess Royal at once called for volunteers to man...