The Busiest Year for Nineteen Years.
THE year 1935 was for the life-boat service the busiest for nineteen years.
There were 378 launches of life-boats to vessels in distress. To find a larger number one...
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Albert H. Locke, brig, of Sund rlaiu 10 Albert...
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THE 45-feet 6-inches Watson (Cabin) Motor Life-boat was the first type of Motor Life-boat in the Institution's fleet to be provided with a cabin, and the first of the type was built in 1923.
This Life-boat is a...
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MEMBER MAKES SAVE MEMBER No. 4992-F, Mr. P. V. Wright, Newtownards, Co. Down, in his 28 ft converted ship's boat Wavechaser effected a dramatic rescue of three people in a stiff wind and heavy sea in Strangford Lough on 15th July. We...
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WE HOPE ALL SHORELINE MEMBERS have enjoyed the fine summer. It would seem difficult not to have enjoyed the sunshine, even though our thoughts have been very much with the members of fire services all over the country and with those of our...
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Lives 1898. saved.
Jan. 6, 1.50 a.m. Brig Prince Contort, of...
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more than its members generally realise, upon seamen and the ships they manned. Take away the common sailor and the craft in which, down the centuries, he has carried goods through tempest and fog, past innumerable natural and man-made...
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DOVER: OCTOBER 30, 1979 IT WAS PARTICULARLY FITTING that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother should agree to visit Dover to name the new lifeboat, for she is not only a Patron of the RNLI, but earlier last year she was installed as...
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Uphill all the Way by Alan Sears published by Adlard Coles Nautical at £14.99 ISBN 0-7136-4876-7 Completing a 30,000-mile race round the world and against the prevailing winds must bring a great feeling of personal satisfaction to those...
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