HELP FOR SICK CHILD Galway Bay. At 6.30 a.m. on nth July, 1964, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that the local doctor needed the life-boat's help to transfer a sick child from the Aran Isles to the mainland as no other suitable...
Bangor, Co Down: The scene at the waterfront when, on Friday June 15, the dedication of the station's new D class inflatable lifeboat took place together with the official opening of the lifeboathouse recently built by North Down Borough... - View image in PDF
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CAISTER, NORFOLK.—At 11 o'clock onthe morning of the 5th October the fishing smack Triton, of Yarmouth, stranded on the Barber Sand. The weather at the time was squally, and there was a heavy sea on the beach and sands. The -vessel was...
In a strong south-easterly gale, on 26th October, the ketch Mabel, of Bideford, went ashore on the Dogger Bank, in Wexford Bay. The vessel, which was loaded with salt, was bound from Gloucester to Wexford. The casualty occurred soon after...
H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT, Presi- dent of the Royal National Life-boat Institution recently named two new motor life-boats; one in March and one in May. The first, on March 29th, was at New Brighton, to whose station a 52-foot Barnett...
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St David's Life-Boat Launches After The Naming Ceremony. - View image in PDF
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Below left: Carol Waikington with, the Sumner lifeboat P&O Nedlloyd Rescue. - View image in PDF
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ON the 26th of March, three Army officers from Dover, members of the Royal Artillery Yacht Club, set sail in a yacht for Margate. Just after four in the afternoon they were seen by the shore attendant attempting to enter Ramsgate harbour. He...
Category: Articles
ESCORT FOR TWO Torbay, Devon. At about 10 p.m. on ist April, 1964, a shipping agent at Exmouth informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel The Duchess had found a catamaran with four people on board 15 miles south-east of Berry...
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 2nd of August, 1959, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that he had been keeping a converted ship's boat under observation for some time as she was...