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Obituary
SINCE the last issue of The Lifeboat the Institution has lost a number of friends and workers : Sir Charles Macara, Bt., J.P., Chairman of the St. Anne's-onthe- Sea Branch, and founder of the Lifeboat Saturday Fund ; the Lady...
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Enterprise
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 29th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized off Divas Head. At 2.14 the life-boat Howard Marryat was launched in a...
Sally
HOYLAKE. — The Life - boat Ooard William Squarey was launched at 11.28 M. on the 14th July in a strong gale from N.W. by W. and a very heavy sea, and proceeded to the yawl Sally, of Liverpool, reaching her at 12 o'clock. She was at...
Leesum
On the 26th December the Life-boat Queensbury was instructed to put to sea with all haste as a steamer named the Leersum, of Amsterdam, carrying a crew of nineteen hands, had struck a mine and foundered four miles S.E. off Scar- borough. The...
A Punt and a Canoe
THREE LIFE-BOAT CALLS IN FOUR HOURS Moelfre, Anglesey. At 1.20 on the afternoon of Friday, August 23rd, 1963, the Moelfre coastguard reported that an 8-foot punt with two on board was in serious difficulties four and a half miles south-south...
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Galway Bay. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 30th of July, 1959, a request was received from the local doctor for the use of the life-boat to convey a child, who urgently needed hospital treatment, from Inishmaan Island to the...
People and Places
Naval Architect dies Naval Architect Jack Tyrrell of Arklow, County Wicklow, Ireland died suddenly on 29 July 1988 at the age of 83.
Jack Tyrrell was one of Ireland's most imaginative naval architects, and in 1964 won...
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Penlee, Cornwall.—23rd January, 1939. Early in the morning information was received from the coastguard that the St. Ives life-boat was out.
At 5 A.M. it was reported that signals had been seen off Clodgy Head.
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Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 5.15 in the morning of the 1st of November, 1948, a vessel was seen to be signalling by searchlight. The coastguard signalled her and she replied with red flares. A south-westerly gale was blowing, with a...