FOLLOWING the two balls which were organised by the Belfast Ladies' Lifeboat Guild in the winter and spring, a Fete, lasting a fortnight, was held in June in the Bellevue Gardens, Belfast, which had been kindly lent to the Institution by...
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Lifesavers from across Asia and Africa are sharing new-found skills with their lifesaving organisations, thanks to a course run by the RNLI.
An estimated 1.2M people drown around the world every year – more than the number...
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PLYMOUTH.—A report having been received, on the llth March, that a vessel was dragging her anchors in Batten Bay and required assistance, the Life-boat Escape put off at 8.15 A.M., during a gale from the "W. and a high sea, and found...
The Life- \ boat Civil Service, on the Wexford No. 2 sta- tion, did good service on the 13th May, by saving the crew of 2 men from the yacht Little Dorrit, of Weymouth, which, during a strong gale from the N.N.E., became a total wreck on the...
On the night of the 23rd February the ketch Falcon, of Cardiff, came to anchor in St. Bride's Bay, off Broadhaven, about half a mile from the shore, and very shortly afterwards a N.W. gale sprang up. The vessel being on a lee shore, was...
TOWED TO HOWTH At 5.45 p.m. the next day, the harbour master told the coxswain, in the honorary secretary's absence, that the cabin cruiser Tuanjim was aground on the rocks at Ireland's Eye. The tide was ebbing and would soon be at...
Workington, Cumberland. — At nine o'clock on the morning of the 20th of November, 1956, a message was received from the master of the Nor- wegian vessel Varangbcrg that he had taken the motor vessel Kind Knight, with a crew of four, in...
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 3.30 on the after- noon of the 18th of July, 1957, the Deal coastguard telephoned to say a tanker was aground on the Goodwin Sands. At 3.45 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out in a moderate sea. There was a...
Recently my wife and I had the privilege of taking the Norwegian coastal voyage - a round trip from Bergen to Kirknes, near the Russian border with Norway, and back. This was a truly wonderful experience and one that I could recommend to... - View image in PDF
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LAST year the Institution lent photographs of portraits of Sir William ! I Hillary and Henry Greathead, and of a j i bust of William Wouldhave, to illustrate ; an article called " The Red Cross of the I Sea : the Romance of the...
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