IT is doubtful whether any other life-boat station in the British Isles could claim such a beginning. For the Lytham-St. Anne's station, in Lancashire, which is responsible for a conventional life-boat, an IRB, a tractor and two boarding...
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Helvick Head, Co. Waterford. — At 11.45 on the night of the 26th of August, 1953, the Civic Guard reported that two youths and an elderly man had put out in a sailing boat, but had not returned. At midnight the life-boat H. F. Bailey...
IN the last issue of The Lifeboat an account was published of the Memorial Service at Bridlington for the men who lost their lives on 10th February, 1871, when an unusually severe gale burst on the north-east coast of England, and at...
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THE OPPORTUNITY to visit overseas lifeboat organisations is usually limited to the four-yearly International Lifeboat Conference; to be invited, and spon-' sored privately, to spend a week in the United States for what was to prove a...
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The Service to the S.S. "Hopelyn." By Commander £. S. CARVER, R.D., R.N.R., Inspector of Life-boats for the Eastern District.
ON Friday, 20th October, at about 11 A.M., I arrived at the harbour at Gorleston....
GENTLEMEN all, are your glasses charged? for I've a toast for the winter weather.
Answer it, then, with a three times three; voice and heart, if you please, together.
It is not a sorrowful theme I...
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The s.s. Vikvall, of Oskaishamn, Sweden, stranded on the Haisborough Sands, about'one mile S.E. of the South Middle Haisborough Buoy, on 24th December, while bound, in ballast, to Hartlepool. The weather was misty, and a strong westerly...
TOWED TO HOWTH At 5.45 p.m. the next day, the harbour master told the coxswain, in the honorary secretary's absence, that the cabin cruiser Tuanjim was aground on the rocks at Ireland's Eye. The tide was ebbing and would soon be at...
JANUARY 12TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At about 4.30 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that Light-vessel No. 85 was being attacked by enemy aeroplanes. The No. 1 Cromer motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 4.50 P.M...
Eastbourne, Sussex - At 4.48 p.m. on nth March, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat had fired a red flare and one of her crew was waving a coat attached to an oar.
There was a fresh...