" Britain's Life-boats -. The Story of a Century of Heroic Service." By Major A. J. DAWSON, with an Introduction by H.K.H. the PRINCE OF WALES, K.G., President of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, and a Fore- word by...
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Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—At 8.45 on the evening of the 17th of Novem- ber, 1956, the lighthouse keeper at Ballinacourty telephoned that a vessel was ashore on the rocks to the east of the lighthouse and that flares had been seen. At nine...
Penlee, Cornwall.—At 10.45 on the night of the 24th of December, 1957, the honorary secretary received a message that there was an injured man who needed a doctor on board the tanker Hemisinus, of London, 150 miles south of Wolf Rock. A...
On service in thick fog without radar A service to a yacht, unsure of its position in very dense fog and running low on fuel off Arran was conducted by the Campeltown lifeboat, with support from the Arran inshore lifeboat, in poor visibility...
Big problems with little ships I was fascinated to read about the 34 calls to which the Poole lifeboat responded on August Bank Holiday last year. It certainly sounds like the record for one station.
Another interesting set...
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Winner Mersey class lifeboat Fisherman's Friend in Poole Harbour. By Hilary Watkins, Broadmayne, Dorset.. - View image in PDF
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Barrow, Lancashire. At 8.38 on the evening of the 8th of November, 1957, the Walney coastguard reported seeing red flares about three miles west-north- west of the look-out. The life-boat Herbert Leigh was launched at 8.55 in a calm sea with...
THE decision of the Committee of Manage- ment of the Institution to establish the headquarters of the " Life-boat Saturday " Fund in London, under the management principally of a representative committee of " Life-boat...
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35 years ago The report of the 1959 AGM in the June 1959 issue of THE LIFEBOAT makes an interesting comparison with that of its successor 35 years later, the costs may be missing several zeros compared with today's figures but threeand-...
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PORTHDINLLAEN.—On the 24th March, during a heavy gale from the N., accompanied by snow showers, the schooner Velocity, of Nefyn, bound from Silloth to Nefyn, with coal, /while at anchor in Porthdinllaen Bay, was observed to show a signal of...