JULY 21ST. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 1.30 in the afternoon the motor life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched to attend the Curracloe Regatta.
The sea was rough, with a strong southsouth- westerly wind blowing...
ON the 6th of December last, the E. Z., of New York, fell in with the British vessel John Garrow, when in the act of sinking.
The master, his wife, child, and twenty-six members of the crew, were safely taken off at great...
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62 (Cyprus) Support Squadron Royal Engineers chose to support the RNLI as their charity for 1986 and collected £1,500 from various fund raising events. These included a dutch auction and a car boot sale organised by the Squadron Wives... - View image in PDF
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BOAT WAS OVERDUE Walmer, Kent. During the afternoon of igth November, 1963, the coastguard and local boatmen received reports that a local drift net fishing boat was overdue with a strong offshore gale blowing up.
The boat...
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Appledore, North Devon and Lifeboat 70-001 - Off the Mumbles - At 4.20 p.m. on I3th March, 1967, the Appledore coxswain was informed that the m.v. Stan Woolaway had a bad list and was thought to be sinking at Mort Point. An R T message...
OTHER IRB LAUNCHES In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded on pages 197 .and 201 the following launches on service were made during the months December, 1969, January and February, 1970,...
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9 In Captain George Manby, the inventor of the line-throwing mortar, Kenneth VValthew has found an excellent subject for a lively and colourful biography (From Rock and Tempest, Geoffrey Bles, £1.90/38s.). Manby was one of those...
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first inflatables were introduced in 1962, particularly as regards floorboards and the construction and maintenance of the craft.
In 1968 the Institution commissioned the design of a fast rigid hull for inshore...
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