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Lifeboat Transporting Carriage. (With Tipping's Wheelplates.)
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger sizes, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
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Dew-i-wyn
.—At 11.35 A.M.
on the 30th September a telephone message was received at the coastguard's station, Clovelly, from the coastguard at Hartland Point, to the effect that a ketch was showing signals of...
Two Vessels
AUGUST 14TH. - APPLEDORE, AND CLOVELLY, DEVON, AND PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
About 7.10 in the evening information from the naval authorities was received at both Clovelly and Padstow that two vessels were sinking, as a result of...
The S.S. Edinburgh
Signal guns having been fired from the Gull Lightship during a S.S.E. wind and thick weather on the 29th of May, the Bradford Life-boat and Vulcan steam-tug left the harbour at 4 A.M., and proceeded to the Goodwill Sands, where the...
Hilda, Premier, Albatross, B.S Colling, Sceptre, Hyperion
The motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched at 9.30 A.M. on the 5th December, as a gale had sprung up from the N.E., and several local fishing boats were at sea.
A heavy sea was running, and heavy rain falling. The life...
A Balloon Race
AT Quoyle, in Northern Ireland, aquatic sports and a carnival were held on 18th July in aid of the Downpatrick branch of the Institution. The Cloughey motor life-boat was present and one of the events was a balloon race. Prizes were given to...
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The Sailing Boat Junior
BOAT BEING SWEPT OUT TO SEA Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 10.50 on the night of the 30th of May, 1947, the coastguard reported that a sailing boat was becalmed and drifting off the breakwater. The motor life-boat A.E.D. was launched at eleven o'...
The S.S. Coral Sea
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 11.10 in the morning of the 17th of February, 1948, the motor life-boat S.G.E. put out, with a doctor on board, to the s.s.
Coral Sea, of New York, bound in ballast from Southampton to New...
Foxtrott
Berwick-on-Twe«d, Northumberland.— At 10.12 on the night of the llth of July, 1948, the coastguard reported red verey lights being fired from a yacht off Bummouth, and the motor life-boat J. and W. was launched at 10.26 in a light...
Squall
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 8.15 on the morning of the 3rd of Septem- ber, 1954, the coxswain noticed that the yacht Squall, of Belfast, which was anchored in the harbour, was dragging towards the pier. At 8.30 the life-boat Douglas...