Crossed Bar RETURNING at 1910 on June 6, 1987 from a machinery exercise, in command of the Portrush 52ft Arun class lifeboat Robert Evans (Civil Service No. 39), Second Coxswain/Mechanic Derek Chambers succeeded in crossing the bar at the...
Padraic Dillane With deep regret we report that Coxswain Padraic Dillane of the Aran Islands lifeboat died recently following a short illness.
A greatly respected and much loved member of the local community, Padraic first...
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The gaunt outline of Barrow's slipway and the functional boathouse for the station's Tyne and D class lifeboats dominates the seaward side of Roa Island.
The aircraft is almost over Peel Island, to which a ferry... - View image in PDF
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MA rEXJL The spirit of Tradition Michel Martell, the seventh generation of the Martell family to head this prestigious company, founded in 1715, was in England when the announcement was made to phase out the traditional Naval rum ration in...
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The spirit of Tradition Michel Martell, the seventh generation of the Martell family to head this prestigious company, founded in 1715, was in England when the announcement was made to phase out the traditional Naval rum ration in 1970. This...
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Nov. 19TH. - ALDEBURGH: SUFFOLK.
At 4.45 A.M. a message was received from the Orfordness coastguard that a vessel was in distress about two miles from Orfordness Lighthouse. A strong N.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea....
JANUARY 16TH. - RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. At 12.30 P.M. the officer in command of the R.A.F. station asked for the life-boat to go to the help of an R.A.F. speed-boat, with a crew of three, which was in distress off Ramsey, and also to put men on...
JULY 11TH. - YOUGHAL, CO. CORK.
During the afternoon of the 10th of July a party of two men and three children went in a rowing boat up the River Blackwater.
They were expected back at nine in the evening,...
SEPTEMBER 24TH. - TORBAY, DEVON.
At 11.53 in the morning a message was received from the resident naval officer at Brixham, through the coastguard, asking for the life-boat crew to assemble. A strong north-west wind was...
DECEMBER 5TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 3.43 in the morning the coastguard reported a wireless message from the S.S. Elizabeth Lysaght, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, that she was aground on Corton Sands and in need of immediate...