At 10 A.M.
on the 15th March the barque Ctwnebiere, of Marseilles, was observed being driven on to Duiidrum Bar, in the furious W.S.W. gale which was raging. The Life-boat Farnlcy was launched and proceeded to her. On...
The recent sad accidents at Lytham and at Rhyl, by the upsetting of the life-boats stationed at these two places, are so calculated to destroy confidence in all life-boat: among those unacquainted with the exact circumstances of the case,...
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At 9.5 P.M. on 22nd February, the Blakeney Coxswain was informed by the Coastguard that a flare had been seen between Blakeney and Wells.
The Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Caroline was launched at 9.45 P.M. in a moderate...
He has taken on some of the most powerful sportsmen on the planet, but when it came to tackling the water, England rugby star James Haskell had to admit defeat.
James put his weight behind the launch of Respect the Water,...
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BALLYWALTER, Co. DOWN. — A messenger having brought information at 1.30 P.M. on the 6th February that a vessel was ashore on the north end of the Long Kock, the crew of the Admiral HenryMeynell Life-boat at once assembled, and crowds of the...
Donaghadee's future lifeboat (in foreground, left) is one of four steel-hulled 44' Waveneys building at Bideford Shipyard, North Devon. When this photograph was taken, in January, her aluminium alloy deck plates were being offered up... - View image in PDF
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For their services to the Norwegian vessel Kings Star, which went aground on the North Shoal - a dangerous rock eight miles off the Orkneys - on 28th May, 1966 (THE LIFE-BOAT, September, 1966), Coxswain A. K. Sinclair, of the Stromness...
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JANUARY 17TH. - ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At 4.20 in the morning the Tenby coastguard telephoned that a landing craft was in need of help off St. Ann’s Head, and at five o’clock the motor life-boat Elizabeth Elson was launched...
STAITHES, YORKSHIRE.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently formed a Life-boat establishment at Staithes, near Whitby, where it was con- sidered that a Life-boat would be most useful, especially in helping the fishing boats, which...
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Galway Bay. At ten o'clock on the night of the 29th of August, 1959, a member of the life-boat's crew saw flares being fired between Aran and the Connemara Coast. He informed the honorary secretary, and at 10.25 the life-boat Mabel...