How many people does it take to save a life? As a mother and son found out last summer, it can take a village
It was almost 5am on Tuesday 14 August when the crew at Skerries Lifeboat Station were woken by their pagers. A...
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AN ABILITY TO KEEP ONE'S HEAD, regardless, seems to be one of the basic qualifications lifeboatmen need.
Especially when they find their world suddenly turned upside down.
Capsizing is not an everyday...
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THERE has been a good world-wide response to the Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Association which, as announced in the last issue of THE LIFE-BOAT, was launched by Sir Alec Rose, the round-the-world sailor, at the International...
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1. Anchor and cable ; anchor for a 30-feet boat, not less than, 75 Ibs. weight; cable 60 fathoms of 3 -inch rope.
The anchor and cable to be secured to the floor of the boat amidships.
2. A grapnel 25 Ibs....
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The Eastbourne lifeboat Duke at Kent beaches ready for recovery after her service to the blazing ammunition ship Breydon Merchant on 24 February. - View image in PDF
(Photo Paul Russell). - View image in PDF
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MARCH 27TH. - AMBLE, NORTH-UMBERLAND. At midnight on the 26th March the coxswain was asked by the naval officer commanding the Tyne area to take a sealed message to Coquet Island, and the motor life-boat Elizabefh Newton, on temporary duty...
JUNE 12TH. - YOUGHAL, CO. CORK.
Rockets had been seen, but later were found to have been fired by boys, who had stolen them. - Rewards, £11 13s..
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LAST March one of the Institution's contractors forwarded to it a letter inquiring if there were any kind of bicycle " used at summer resorts for saving life," as the writer was " about to invent a bicycle of that...
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TUG TAKEN IN TOW TO HARBOUR Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland.
At 2.24 on the morning of the 12th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen about six miles east of Berwick,...