Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—On the 15th of August, 1949, an officer of the Irish Army and a priest, who were on holiday, went out from Drogheda in a motor boat. About four in the after- noon the engine broke down, the boat anchored, and the...
The most amazing life-boat story of them all? The cottagers just down the road from where the Louisa was nudging her slow way, inch by inch along Mrs Washford's wall, had come out into the road to see what was going on. A hundred yards...
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IN April, 1926, the Institution awarded its Gold Brooch to Miss H. Denham, who for many years has been in the Incurable Ward at Westminster Hospital; and during the past seven years has collected there for the Life-boat Service nearly...
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On a lee shore INFORMATION from Ministry of Defence Police that a catamaran, Helen M, was anchored in a dangerous position off Pendine was received by Tenby Coastguard at 2110 on Wednesday October 7, 1981. Two of the catamaran's crew...
Walk Around Chanty BY CAPTAIN Q. C. A. CKAUFURD, R.N., Honorary Secretary of the Dungeness Life-boat Station.
" We were much relieved, when dawn broke, to see our boat beating home in the offing. As there had been no...
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At about 6 P.M. on the 25th August several large herring boats and a yacht were to be seen making for port, and two miles N.E. of the pier head the yacht was dismasted. A nasty sea was running and it was blowing very fresh from the north—at...
Mr R. Marr, of Dunbar, East Lothian, and Ex-Coxswain Calum Macdonald, of Stornoway, Outer HebridesMr Calum Macdonald, former coxswain of the Stornoway lifeboat, was one of three people to receive the freedom of the Burgh of Stornoway at the...
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Capsize WEXFORD GARDA informed the honorary secretary of Kilmore Quay lifeboat station at 0115 on Saturday, December 24, 1977, that four red flares had been sighted off Bannow Bay towards the Saltees. At 0130 maroons were fired by the...
The 36th Annual Meeting of the Committee of the Fund was held on the 16th ultimo, and was presided over by Sir RALPH H. KNOX, K.C.B. Mr.
CHARLES DIBDIN, the honorary secretary, reported that the Fund continued to receive...
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