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Saved from a shipwreck

Date: Autumn 2013

Volume: 61

Issue: 605 Lifeboat Magazine Autumn 2013

This photograph captures the moment that our Kinsale and Courtmacsherry Harbour lifeboat volunteers saved 30 people from a sinking training vessel off the Cork coast

Both lifeboat crews were...

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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats

Date: October 1857

Volume: 03

Issue: 26

CAHORE, IRELAND.—A branch of the Na- tional Life-boat Institution has been founded at Cahore, on the coast of Wexford, Ireland.

The Blackwater Bank, extending for many miles along this part of the coast, has been from time...

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A Motor Launch

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

MAY 11TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 6.16 P .M. a message was received from the coastguard at Cliff End that a motor launch off Barton-on-Sea had broken down, and that its occupants were waving clothing to attract attention. As the sea...

El Alamein

Date: 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1946

JUNE 6TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.

During the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that a motor fishing boat off Kinnaird Head appeared to be making for Fraserburgh under sail. Later they telephoned that she was...

Mary Kate

Date: August 1900

Volume: 17

Issue: 197

BROADSTAIRS.—The Life-boat Francis Forbes Barton was launched at 4.5 P.M.

on the 14th February, while a gale of wind was blowing from N., accompanied by a heavy sea, a barge, with a signal of distress flying, having been...

An Aeroplane (168)

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

NOVEMBER 24TH. - THE LIZARD, CORNWALL. At 12.50 P.M. the police telephoned that a German aeroplane had been shot down three miles S.W. of The Lizard.

A westerly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat...

R.A.F. Salvage Vessel Dutch Lady

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

MARCH 21ST. - SHOREHAM HAR-BOUR, SUSSEX. At 5.18 in the afternoon a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel off Goring was leaking badly and needed the help of a life-boat. There was no wind and the sea was smooth, but there...

A Whitley Aeroplane (1)

Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

DECEMBER 24TH. - SENNEN COVE, CORNWALL. A Whitley aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but four men from it were rescued by a patrol trawler. The others were not found. - Rewards, £9 10s..

An Aeroplane (133)

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

SEPTEMBER 6TH. - SENNEN COVE, CORNWALL. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boat was recalled. - Rewards, £4 16s. 6d..

Charities and Charity Law

Date: October 1971

Volume: 42

Issue: 437

THERE was a lengthy debate in July ir/thejHouse of Lords on Charities and Charity Law initiated by Lord Beaumont of Whitley. The following are a few excerpts from various speeches which may be useful for guidance and for quotation where...

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