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Galway's Arun uses inflatable to snatch skin divers to safety from surfCoxswain Padraig Dillane and Crew Members Seamus Flaherty and Mairtin Fitzpatrick of the Galway Bay lifeboat have been accorded the Thanks of the Royal National...
Fishing Cobles (2)
A strong N.E. gale sprang up very sud- denly on the 5th February in the early morning when all the fishing cobles were at sea fishing. The alarm gun was fired at Cullercoats, but as all the Life-boat- men at that station were at sea the boat...
New Superintendent Engineer
MB. A. C. BUTCHER has been succeeded as superintendent engineer by Com- mander (E.) R. A. Gould, O.B.E., R.N.
Commander Gould entered the Navy as a boy artificer in 1915, and saw much service in the last war. He was engin-...
Category: Committee
Mandragon
Margate, Kent. At 4.56 p.m. on 8th January, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares have been seen north west of the West Girdler buoy. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. n) was launched at 5.22 in a...
Flamborough
FLAMBOROUGH, Sunday May 12,1985: Flamborough's 37ft Oakley class lifeboat, Will and Fanny Kirby, launched at 1207. The Filey fishing coble, Gaidan, had been crabbing close in under the cliffs, north of Flamborough Head. The weather was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Centenaries
Centenary vellums were presented to three life-boat stations in May and June.
At Poole, Dorset, the presentation ceremony took place at the life-boat house, Poole Quay, on 22nd May, the vellum being presented to the branch...
Category: Articles
Grand designs for a lifeboat station
There’s been a lifeboat station in the picturesque town of Tenby, in south west Wales, for 160 years – but it’s not always been in the same place
The station was established in 1852 by the...
Category: Articles
Anchors
THE subject of Anchors is one of such vast importance to the Life-boat Service, and of so deep an interest to the whole sea-faring community, that it is felt that the able Paper, entitled "Anchors: Old Forms and Recent...
Category: Articles
Probus Ioanes
FOUR IN DISTRESS Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 6.45 p.m. on zyth May, 1964, the coastguard told the life-boat coxswain that a fishing boat appeared to be in need of help about i£ miles from the coastguard station and by 6.55 the life-boat...
A Minesweeper's Paravane
PARAVANE TOWED Holy Island, Northumberland. On Tuesday, 9th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an unidentified object had been seen one and a half miles north of Megstone and as the life-boat Gertrude was to...