The new French life-boat Commandant Gaudin. She has a top speed of 14 knots.. - View image in PDF
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" I AM writing a few lines to thank you for the life-boat journal you send me, and also my pension I receive at the end of the year. I am very interested in the life-boat. I was born in Clovelly on May 31st, 1869, and in 1887, when I...
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DURING March and April two vessels were wrecked on the Shetland Islands.
They were both vessels sailing from Aberdeen. One was a trawler, the Ben Doran, and, in spite of courageous efforts to rescue her crew, all were...
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Foynes Island, 10 miles downthe Shannon Estuary, has a fast running title with an average ilepth of 20 feet at most stages. - View image in PDF
by courtesy of (lie Irish Tourist Board. - View image in PDF
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THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 145 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 17 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to 15th June, 1939 66,237 The Duke of Kent's Presidential Address A Record Year.<...
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LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.—The life-boat Latitia was launched about midnight on the j 12th February, 1869, in reply to signals of distress from the brig Beatrix, of Whitby, j which was riding heavily in the Roads near Gorton Gapway, with her...
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ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, TUESDAY, MAY 17 1976: A YEAR OF GREAT ACHIEVEMENT ON SEA AND LAND A STANDING OVATION for a gold medallist and his crew at the end of the presentation of no less than 24 medals for gallantry; the report of an increase of...
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WALMER, KENT.—On the 1st October, during hazy weather, the barquentine Juno, of Riga, stranded on the South Goodwin Sands, whilst bound from Portsmouth to Sunderland. Informa- tion reached the Coxswain of the Life- boat about 9 A.M., and...
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SIXTY years ago last September, and fifty years ago this December, life- boats were capsized and lives were lost.
Sixty years ago it was the life-boat at Kingstown, Co. Dublin, which capsized.
Her second...
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WEXFORD.—At about 6 o'clock on the morning of the 18th October, 1889, the Life-boat Ethel Eveleen was launched, intelligence having been received that a vessel was aground on the Dogger Bank.
A strong gale was blowing...
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