Moelfre, Anglesey.—At eight o'clock on the morning of the 10th of February, 1953, the Holy head coastguard tele- phoned that the S.S. Alice of Bremen, which had broken down and had been towed to Moelfre Bay by a pilot boat, was dragging...
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—The s.s. Malta, of Glasgow, 2,017 tons, with passengers and a general cargo from Liverpool for Italy, went ashore at Wheal Castle, about four miles from Senaea, during a dense fog on the evening of the 15th October. Intelligence of the...
COMMUNICATIONS AND NAVIGATIONAL AIDS OF A MODERN LIFEBOAT by Lieutenant Ernest Gough, RN STAFF OFFICER (COMMUNICATIONS), RNLISEEING AN OFFSHORE LIFEBOAT for the first time, you may wonder why she has so many antennae and gadgets sprouting...
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The ship's company of RFA Gold Rover, commanded by Captain P. T. Taylor, collected £234 for Weymouth lifeboat station and the money was presented to Coxswain Vic Pitman (1.) by Chief Officer J. Carew at Portland last January. With... - View image in PDF
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IREI.ANDS LINKS with the RNLI are almost as old as the Institution itself and the tradition of lifesaving around its rugged coastline stretches back to the turn of the century.
Guarding the busy shipping lanes bringing...
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IB it worth while to work for others ? Is it worth something to save life ? As the day broke, one fearfully stormy morning, a large barque ran on a bank of sand, eight miles from the British coast, and lay there at the mercy of the tempest,...
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Alors! Visitors to the Three Horseshoes at Turves, near Whittlesey, might have been forgiven for imagining they were in France rather than in the Fens of England. The landlord of the pub, exiled Frenchman Christian Kolich, and his wife Terri...
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France Honours the Life-boat Service A Decoration for a Cornish ex-Coxswain ON the 14th of July last, a reception was held at University College, South- ampton to mark the celebrations of France's national day, Le Quatorze...
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