HOLYHEAD.—While a strong gale was blowing from N.W., accompanied by a heavy sea and rain, on the evening of the 6th Aug., 1900, the Coxswain of the Life-boat observed a barque dragging her anchors and driving towards the Nimrod rocks. He...
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THE subject for the ninth Life-boat Essay Competition in Elementary Schools, held this year, was, " What are the qualities which make the Lifeboatman an example of good citizenship ? " So far as the quality of the essays was...
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PORTRUSH, Co. ANTRIM.—The crew of this Life-boat haying expressed a desire to be provided •with a larger boat, a new one has accordingly been furnished to them, of the following dimensions: length, 32 feet; breadth, 7£ feet; number of...
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THE OPPORTUNITY to visit overseas lifeboat organisations is usually limited to the four-yearly International Lifeboat Conference; to be invited, and spon-' sored privately, to spend a week in the United States for what was to prove a...
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Gale search A 999 CALL was received by Hartland Coastguard at 2125 on Saturday April 25 from the owner and skipper of the 55ft auxiliary ketch Springtide. He told them that the yacht had been moored in an exposed position in Ilfracombe...
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Yo-ho-ho! Smugglers galore swarmed the countryside around Whimple and in hot pursuit was a determined band of excise men. The barrel-laden smugglers tiptoed their way over hill and down dale in a bid to reach the New Fountain Inn with their... - View image in PDF
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(left) One day last summer senior crew members from Brought}' Ferry, Stonehaven, Aberdeen and Peterhead visited Bristow Helicopters' Aberdeen base, which serves the Forties and Brent offshore oil fields. Bristows Senior Aircrewman... - View image in PDF
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The 168th Annual General Meeting of the RNLI was held in what has become its traditional venue - the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London's South Bank - on the morning of Tuesday 19 May, 1992. The weather, however, was far from the traditional...
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