Injured couple rescued from yacht aground in heavy surfThe Chairman of the RNLI, Michael Vernon, has written a letter of congratulation to helmsman William Walker-Jones of Criccieth's inshore lifeboat following the rescue of two people...
SECOND OF THE STEEL HULLED 18 knot fast afloat Thames class lifeboats, Elizabeth Ann, 50-002, recently completed her first comparative trials with the prototype, 50-001, and with an Arun class boat, 52-02. Although only light to moderate...
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AUGUST 7TH. - HOWTH, CO. DUBLIN.
At 3.20 in the afternoon a report was received by telephone from the Bailey Lighthouse that a yacht was showing a distress signal. A south-south-west wind was blowing, with a moderate sea....
THURSDAY, 5th June, 1877: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and...
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Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 8.20 on the morning of the 8th of June, 1958, the Bailey lighthouse keeper telephoned the honorary secretary to say a radio message had been received from Tusker Rock lighthouse that a trawler was adrift...
MOTOR FISHING VESSEL FOUND IN FOG Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 7.15 on the evening of the 9th October, 1962, a customs officer was walking along the pier when he saw a flare being burnt in the direction of Splaugh...
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford - At 11.25 a.m. on 3istMay, 1967, Lloyd's agent at Wexford told the honorary secretary that there was an injured man on board the m.v. Naess Louisiana. The life-boat H. F. Bailey, on temporary duty at the...
Weymouth, Dorset. — 4 th August.
Rockets had been fired at sea, but they ceased and a vessel was seen going on her way.—Rewards, £6 13s..
THE life-boat Christmas card and calendar, with a reproduction in colour of the service of the Ballycotton motor life-boat to the Daunt Rock lightship, of which particulars were given in the last issue of The Life-boat, can still be obtained...
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ABERYSTWITH.—A new 34-feet, 10- oared Life-boat has been forwarded to this well-known Welsh watering-place, its cost having been defrayed from a hand- some legacy bequeathed to the Institution, through its Manchester Branch, by the late Mr....
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