XXVII.—DUNDALK.
Stoctport Sunday School, 32 feet long, 7 feet 6 inches beam, 10 oars.
THIS Life-boat Station is on a low flat shore, three miles south of Soldiers' Point, the southern side of the...
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The vast majority of supporters and readers of The Lifeboat will know by now that the RNLI celebrated its 175th anniversary on 4 March.
Each one of the 223 lifeboat stations in the UK and Republic of Ireland raised a...
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Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 11.40 on the night of the 6th of June, 1956, the Dingle Coast Life-saving Service tele- phoned that the fishing boat Carraig Doun, of Dublin, had engine trouble one mile west of Ventry harbour and was being driven...
The brig Lizzie, of Newport, Monmouthshire, was stranded on the eastern spit of Hayle Bar, during a violent storm from the north, with showers of hail, on the 20th March. The Oxford University life-boat Isis went out, in reply to her signals...
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON Dec. 2ND. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK.
At 12.14 in the morning a message from the coastguard reached the lifeboat station of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston that...
OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
f The figures refer to tlu numbers of Hit Life-boats detailed, on pages 616-627.) Aberdovey, Merioneth, 165.
Abersocb, Carnarvon, 169 Aberystwith, Cardigan, 164...
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The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of the different types of Life-boats used in the Institution's service. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view. Fig. 2 the " plan " or deck view. Fig....
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Rosslare Harbour ROSSLARE HARBOUR in County Wexford is, according to the tourist brochures, the heart of the Sunny South East.
Unfortunately, on Friday June 28,1985, it failed to live up to its name. With the naming...
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ON the night of Sunday, the 31st Janu- ary, 1892, the four-masted steamer Eider, of Bremen, of 4,719 tons, the Norddeutscher Lloyd, stranded on the reef of rocks in the Isle of Wight, known as Atherfield Ledge. There was a thick fog, the...
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Photographers save fishermen in GaleA rescue carried out by the crew of a rigid inflatable in Gale force conditions on 16 April 1991 has earned its two-man crew awards from the RNLI. The owner of the boat, Rick Tomlinson (a former crew...