IN the last issue of the Life-boat Journal we had the satisfaction to announce to our readers that H.E.H. the DUKE or YORK had graciously accepted the post of President of the Institution's " Life-boat Saturday " Fund, and we...
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THE R.N.L.I. has had a long association with firms at Cowes on the Isle of Wight in the construction of life-boats. The earliest life-boats were built by S. E. Saunders and later Messrs. J. Samuel White. Today life-boat construction is...
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Inaugural Ceremony by H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester, K.G.
THE new Padstow Motor Life-boat was named on 21st July by H.E.H. the Duke of Gloucester, K.G., the name given to her being Princess Mary.
The new...
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Gateshead.
The Annual Meeting was held on the 1st June, the chair being taken by the Mayor (Alderman W. Clough). The report for the year ending the 30th September, 1920, showed that the Branch had raised a sum of nearly...
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HARWICH.—-At noon on the 7th Feb., in answer to a telegram, the Springwtll Life-boat was manned and put off to the rescue of the crew of a vessel ashore on the Shipwash Sand. A strong S.S.E. wind was blowing at the time, and the sea was...
Several of the fishing-boats belonging to Bally- cotton, when at sea, were overtaken by the storm of the llth-12th January.
The majority of them reached safety, but the Winefred, having lost her sails, drifted into...
At about noon on the 23rd November, during a moderate southerly gale, the Coxswain of the Life-boat Thomas McCunn received a telegram from the Light-keeper at Mull of Galloway, stating that a Russian barquentine was driving across Luce Bay...
Signals haviog been fired by the Nore Light-vessel on the morning of the 12th February, the crew of the same Lifeboat were summoned and proceeded to the head of the pier, a distance of about a mile and a half, where the boat is kept moored....
WEXFORD.—While the fishing fleet were returning, on the 2nd March, a strong gale having suddenly sprung up from S.S.W. with a rough sea, one of the boats was observed to fly signals of distress, and another, with her sails blown away,...
Selsey, Sussex.—At half past eight on the night of the 14th of December, 1949, the coastguard gave information that the Owers light-vessel had reported a yacht sinking nearby. At 8.40 the life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched in a...