The life-boat service is to benefit from a Christmas card attractively illus- trated by a reproduction of a painting by Richard Eurich, R.A., showing the Britannia lying off Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. Through the generosity of the owner of the...
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Additional life-boats to come into production will include those of the 70-foot, 48-foot 6-inch Solent, 44-foot steel and 37-foot Oakley classes. The four types mentioned are shown above in that order.. - View image in PDF
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Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 8.15 on the evening of the 4th of September, 1958, a message was received from Valentia radio station that the trawler Ros Airgead needed a doctor twenty miles north of Blaskets, as one of her seamen had been badly...
This Amateur Orchestra, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien, of Altrincham, Manchester, and their eight sons, id the Institution on many occasions at dances and garden parties. Mr. O' Brien has also been for has helped jy pa several... - View image in PDF
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For their work - the story of the rescue attempts that night took up over four pages of THE LIFE-BOAT for November, 1927 - a total of 38 medals and vellums were given together with medals from the Italian government of the...
Category: Medals
Peel, Isle of Man.—At 5.10 P.M. on the 5th December, 1938, the coastguard reported flares six miles N.N.E.
of Peel. A strong and freshening S.W.
breeze was blowing, with a rough sea.
The...
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—On the 23rd of January, 1953, the Irish Lights Commissioners asked if the life- boat would land a man from the Black- water Lightvessel. His sister had died in Wexford, and the Commissioners' own boat was...