FORMBY, LANCASHIRE.—At 8.25 on the morning of the 2nd January, a message was received from the Formby Light-vessel, stating that a steamer appeared to be aground on Taylor's Bank, and later the information was...
Category: Services
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Patrick Sliney, of Ballycotton, Cork.
He served as second coxswain from 1911 until 1922, and since 1922 he has been coxswain, so that he has been an officer of the life-boat for...
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The moment of truth! Eamonn Andrews waylays Coxswain Matt Lethbridge in the London Boat Show, Earls Court, to say 'This is Your Life'. (Look into the background, left, and you will also see Emergency Mechanic John 'Chick'... - View image in PDF
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On the 9th December the Ann Maria, Life-boat was launched from this place, and saved 6 men from the Hero, of Scarborough, which had run ashore disabled by a westerly gale..
THIS August, for the seventh year running, the fishwives of Cullercoats made a collection for the Life-boat Service when the quarterly launch and road exercise of the Cullercoats Life-boat took place.
By collecting this...
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22nd August.
Went to the Bull Lightvessel, where one of the crew had died in the lan- tern.—Permanent Crew, Rewards, 6s..
MONTROSE.—At about 9.30 A.M. on 27th January a smack was seen turning towards the river, and when a little way from Scurdyness Lighthouse she missed stays and drifted on to the Annat Bank.
The No. 1 Life-boat Robert...
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—At 11.43 on the morning of the 28th of June, 1950, the harbour master called the mechanic ashore from the life- boat Dun- leary II, and told him that a sailing boat had capsized. Seven minutes later the life-boat...
Exmouth, Devon.—At 4.18 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a boat was burning a white light about three miles south-east of Orcombe Point. At 4.39 the life-boat Maria Noble was launched. There was a...
The survivor who clung to the mast for an hour was rescued by the Lytham-St. Anne's life-boat (see page 729). - View image in PDF
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