When the wind blows up in Douglas Bay: Monas Queen, car ferry from Liverpool, ploughing in through this year's January gales. . . . - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of W, S. Basnett. - View image in PDF
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Committee, forthwith approached the Board of Trade with a view to the holding of the proposed Conference. In due course the Board of Trade called together the Conference at which the Committee of Management of the Institution, the Com-...
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SOME record, although brief, of our hea- viest storms may prove useful for reference at some future day, when the whole subject of shipwreck comes to be inquired into, as sooner or later it must. The disastrous gale of September last, which...
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•1824-1974 See how 98,500 lives have been saved by men like these This is just one of the remarkable photographs included inTheObserver Lifeboat Exhibition.
They are the work of Observer photographer, Chris Smith.who spent...
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One of the famous visitors to the RNLI stand at the Ideal Home Exhibition was Richard Evans, BEM, the former coxswain of Moelfre lifeboat. Dick Evans, who was awarded two gold medals, one for the service to Hindlea in 1959 and one for the... - View image in PDF
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DECEMBER 10TH. - ARRANMORE, CO.
DONEGAL. A fishing boat had been reported in distress, but was helped by another boat. - Rewards, £25 16s. 6d..
THERE are few matters of greater importance to a maritime country like England than the preservation and improvement of its harbours. To the extent of our sea-coast, and the bountiful distribution of safe and commodious harbours on so many...
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On the night of the 12th January the steam-tug Hob Boy, of Sunderlaud, ran ashore on Whitburn rocks. On the alarm being given, the Whitburn life-boat was promptly launched through a high surf, and succeeded in rescuing her crew of 4 men and...