JULY 13TH. - LYNMOUTH, DEVON. At about 7.30 P.M. a motor yacht was seen flying a distress signal. A squally southerly wind was blowing, with a choppy sea. T h e pulling and sailing life-boat Prichard Frederick Gainer was launched at 7.50 P.M...
OCTOBER 1ST. - CLOGHER HEAD, CO. LOUTH. At nine at night the local motor trawler Maygough was reported to have been burning flares about seven miles north-east of Port Oriel at seven o’clock. Another trawler had gone to her help, but had not...
from page 12 were sent to Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic Anthony G. Hawkins, Second Assistant Mechanic Roy W.
Couzens and Crew Members John J.
Smith, David Williams, Geoffrey I.
Buckland and...
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Overdue THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND motor fishing vessel Ard Carna put out from Greencastle, Lough Foyle, on Thursday April 28 to fish white fish. She had a crew of five and was expected back on the Friday or Saturday. At 2200 on Saturday April...
PERHAPS the chief drawback to a sufficiency of life preserving articles being provided on board our packet steamers and other passenger ships, has been the unfitness for "other purposes of any such articles commonly in use. Thus it may...
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To THOMAS PENGILLY, on his retirement, after serving 27 years as Coxswain and previously 10 years as Second Coxswain of the Clovelly Life-boat, a Certificate of Ser- vice and a Pension.
To JOHN W. PLUMMER, on his...
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Honorary Life-Governors.
HARRIET, LADY FINDLAY, D.B.E., has been appointed an Honorary Life-Governor of the Institution in recognition of her valued services as President of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild of the Edinburgh,...
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Lottery The RNLFs national lottery, which has so far raised more than £1 million for the Institution's funds, now has increased prize money on offer for the 20 winners of each quarter's draw.
The first prize...
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Llandudno, Caernarvonshire.—At 12.40 in the afternoon of the 6th of April, 1947, a message was received from the piermaster that a yacht was drifting about two miles offshore and flying distress signals. A south-south-west gale was blowing,...
At 4.50 A.M.
on the 17th March a telephone call was received from Dublin that Valentia Wireless Station had reported a trawler in distress twenty-five miles S.S.W. of Mizen Head. A strong W.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a...