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Halronell

Date: March 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 399

On the 22nd October, 1961, the motor vessel Halronell ran aground off the Irish coast. The Rosslare Harbour, Kilrnore and Arklow life-boats all put out. A full account of this service appears on page 198..

Halronell (1)

Date: March 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 399

On the 22nd October, 1961, the motor vessel Halronell ran aground off the Irish coast. The Rosslare Harbour, Kilrnore and Arklow life-boats all put out. A full account of this service appears on page 198..

Various Boats

Date: March 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 329

Cromer, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—During the gale on the East Coast on the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th November, the motor life-boats at Cromer and Great Yarmouth received seven calls for service.— Rewards £106 18*. (For...

None (3)

Date: June 1935

Volume: 29

Issue: 322

— On the evening of the 26th January, the coast- guard reported that a vessel was on fire about seven miles east of the Mull of Galloway. A moderate north gale was blowing, with a moderate to rough sea, and the weather was very...

Sprig o' Heather

Date: November 1934

Volume: 29

Issue: 320

Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—On the morning of the 12th July the Fraserburgh coastguard telephoned that the watchman at Cairnbulg had reported a steam drifter ashore on Cairnbulg Briggs. The sea was smooth, with a light S.E. breeze, but a...

Prize Winning Essay

Date: March 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 375

A competition open to secondary schoolboys and schoolgirls under the age of sixteen for an essay on the subject of the Life-boat Service was held again last year.

The subject set was: "Why does our country need a...

Category: Articles

Life-Boat Carriages

Date: July 1856

Volume: 02

Issue: 21

A MOST important adjunct to a coast life- boat is a carriage. It is not sufficient that the boat herself be of a superior description, capable of contending safely and successfully with that element in which her work has to be performed,...

Category: Articles

A Kayak

Date: Summer 2006

Volume: 60

Issue: 577

On Sunday 11 June 2006, a man launched his flat-topped kayak at Perranporth in Cornwall in anticipation of an afternoon's fun. Soon however he was overwhelmed by 2m surf. It washed him, out of control, round into a rocky cove and threw...

Storms and Wild Water

Date: Summer 2010

Volume: 61

Issue: 592

Storms and Wild Water

By Dag Pike
Review by
Carol Waterkeyn

This well-illustrated book brings storms at
sea to life.

Have you ever wondered how storms...

Category: Articles

A Vessel

Date: October 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 335

Campbeltown, Argyllshire. -— 8th March, 1938. A vessel had been reported ashore at Dunaverty Point, but she refloated and the life-boat was recalled by wireless from Portpatrick.— Rewards, £13 11*. 6d..