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Mr. Ken Adams, of Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, has been awarded a certifi- cate by the R.N.L.I. as the writer of what was, in the Institution's opinion, the best factual newspaper account of a service by a life-boat published in 1968. His...

On the 14th-15th February, shortly after mid- night, the Coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore near the Sutton Coastguard station, on the north side of Dublin Bay, and with all haste the No. 2 Life-boat Dunleary was sent to her...

At 5.10 p.m. on 9th February, 1965, a doctor informed the honorary secretary that a patient on the Isle of Eday required hospital treatment and no other boat being available requested the use of the life-boat. At 5.30 the life-boat The John...

On the 15th of January, 1953, the Thurso life-boat rescued the crew of eleven of the steam trawler Sunlight, of Aberdeen, which was listing heavily at the time of the rescue. For a full account of this service and of the rewards given see...

AUGUST 28TH. - COURTMACSHERRY HARBOUR, CO. CORK. At nine in the morning a messenger came by car to the lifeboat station and reported that six small sailing boats had been washed away from Kilbrittain during a storm, and it was thought that a...

The ketch Trojan, of Jersey, bound from London to Morlaix, Brittany, was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands on the 14th July soon after 2 A.M. The Life-boat Francis Forbes Barton was launched in response to signals, and on reaching the ketch the...

MONTROSE, N.B.—On the 5th March, during a very heavy gale from the S.S.E., and an exceedingly heavy sea, accompanied by a snowstorm, the schooner Agnes, of Llanelly, bound thence to Newcastle, while running for Montrose Harbour, went ashore...