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Today's Lifeboatmen
John Devereux, 43, of Kilmore Quay lifeboat station joined the crew in 1968 and served as assistant motor mechanic in the years from April 1974 to January 1982, when he was appointed coxswain.
On Christmas Eve 1977, Kilmore...
Category: Articles
Erlo Hills
Fourteen rescued A TRAWLER, Erlo Hills, ashore north west of the Mull of Kintyre, Argyllshire, was reported by Clyde Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Campbeltown lifeboat station at 0655 on Friday October 2, 1981. Maroons were fired...
The Ballycotton Life-Boat Standing By the Daunt Rock Lightship
The Ballycotton Life-Boat Standing By The Daunt Rock Lightship. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Diesel Engines In Life-Boats
WHEN diesel engines were first fitted into a life-boat in 1932 a new policy was adopted which was to be of the greatest importance in the history of life-boat construction. Just how im- portant this development has been isshown by the fact...
Category: Articles
Birgitz and Riki Pia
Lifeboat aids disabled yacht and sinking trawler in southerly galeA service which started as a short call to search for an overdue sailing dinghy, and which was cancelled almost immediately when the dinghy was located, eventually turned into...
The Emergency Towing Vessel English
The emergency towing vessel Englishman In Bressay Sound during a routine patrol Photo-. Nicholas Leach/Ships Monthly. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Princess
On the evening of the 8th July, Coxswain Grunnill received a telephone message from the Coastguard stating that a vessel was flying a signal of distress. He launched the Life-boat Samuel Lewis, and on arrival found the vessel was the ketch...
An Aeroplane (49)
MAY 27TH. - BALTIMORE, CO. CORK.
An aeroplane was reported to have crashed, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £5 12s..
"We Interrupt This Programme With a Gale Warning."
From the drawing by Mr. David Langdon, reproduced by courtesy of the artist and The Evening Standard.
Category: Drawings
Barge Lord Nelson
— At about 2 A.M. on the 3rd October, the Cox- swain of the No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane was called up and informed that a vessel near the North Bank had dragged her anchors, and was burning flares for assistance. He hastened to the Boathouse,...