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Date: Spring 1994

Volume: 53

Issue: 528

Dial 999 - Emergency Services in Action by John Creighton ISBN 1-85058-297-1 published by Sigma Leisure at £9.95 John Creighton has spent some time as an operational firefighter and in the maritime rescue services, so is well qualified...

Category: Articles

A Steamer

Date: May 1916

Volume: 23

Issue: 260

A steamer of 6,000 tons register stranded in the neighbourhood of the Skullmartin Rock in the early morning of the 9th November. Information of the casualty reached Donaghadee shortly after 5 A.M., and the crew of the Motor Life-boat William...

Cornhill

Date: November 1871

Volume: 08

Issue: 82

On the night of the 15th January, three vessels which were at anchor in Dungarvan Pool were driven on the rocky shore at Ballin- acourty, the wind blowing a whole gale from the S. at the time. Two of them got so close to the shore that they...

Elswick

Date: February 1914

Volume: 22

Issue: 251

At 7.20 A.M. on the 7th June, during a strong S.S.W. gale and very heavy sea, the steamer Elswick, of Newcastle, drove ashore in Seaford Bay. The motor Life-Boat Sir FitzRoy Clayton at once proceeded to her, and found that she was in a very...

Christmas Cards and Calendars

Date: September 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 409

THIS year the Institution will for the first time have a choice of two Christ- mas cards for sale, in addition to pocket calendars.

One card is a reproduction of a painting by David Cobb, R.O.I., S.M.A., which depicts the...

Category: Advertisement

Excel

Date: February 1875

Volume: 09

Issue: 95

The Life-boat Four Sisters pro- ceeded through a heavy westerly gale to the Eaxel, a schooner belonging to Mil- ford, which, on the 9th December, was wrecked neat the Owers Lightship. A heavy surf raged along the beach, and a long struggle...

Sci Funds An Atlantic

Date: Autumn 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 550

SCI funds an Atlantic Peter Hindley, Chief Executive Officer of Service Corporation International (SCI) recently drew the winning ticket in the company's national raffle in aid of the RNLI.

The raffle along with many... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Books

Date: Spring 2008

Volume: 61

Issue: 583

Reviews of what’s new on the shelves this season

The storm prophet
by Hector Macdonald
Review by Carol Waterkeyn

This extraordinary novel is set...

Category: Articles

Fishing Cobles

Date: August 1900

Volume: 17

Issue: 197

STAITHES, YORKSHIRE. — The cobles which were out fishing on the afternoon of the 4th January were overtaken by a thick fog and at about 3.30 a boat with a crew of five men out off from the shore to assist them. At 5.15, as darkness was...

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Date: September 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 401

COMBINED OPERATION TO RESCUE BOY FROM CLIFF Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 9.40 on the evening of the 29th May, 1962, the police informed the honorary secretary that a boy was thought to have fallen into the sea from the Little Orme's...