St. Ives, Cornwall. At 8.15 a.m. on 20th January, 1965, the honorary secretary received a request from a doctor in St. Ives for the use of the St. Ives lifeboat to take an injured seaman, with suspected fractured ribs, from the Belgian...
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OFF PENZANCE At 3 p.m. on 29th March, 1966, the honorary secretary was informed that the life-boat would be required to bring a sick man off the Greek vessel Proodos. At 6.10 the life-boat Solomon Browne was launched in a light north...
Heather Deane of the RNLI Poole Office signs on Howard Lang: 'The Onedin Line's' Captain Baines.. - View image in PDF
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The s.s.IngridlL, of Christiania, whilst bound from Christiania to London with a cargo of timber, stranded on the Whitby Rocks on the 25th November. As the sea was smooth, Coxswain Langlands and Second Coxswain Eglon put off in a coble to...
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.— During a regatta on the 23rd of August, 1951, the weather began to get worse.
At 3.15 in the afternoon a yacht cap- sized. At 3.20 other yachts were seen to capsize one mile north-east of the...
(On the left is the Rev. T. N. Dunscombe, Hon. Secretary of the Hauxley Branch, and on the right Captain Young, the Amble Pilot.). - View image in PDF
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Walmer's new Rother class lifeboat will be named Hampshire Rose by Lady Rose at 1500 on Saturday, September 6..
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DECEMBER 20TH. - ARRANMORE, CO. DONEGAL. An unknown vessel had been reported on fire, but nothing could be found.
- Rewards, £22 19s. 6d..
Pushing the boat out (above and left} ~ In September Bundoran branch organised a sponsored 'boat push' from Ballyshannon to Bundoran which raised £2,500 for lifeboat funds,. - View image in PDF
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