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Lifeboat Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 54 Number 532 Chairman: SIR MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES CUE RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Editorial Assistant: MARY GYOPARI Advertisement Manager:...
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Nature of Services By Life-Boats
CLASS Fishing boats - all types Motor vessels, steamers, barges, motor boats, etc.
Sailing yachts, sailing dinghies, sailing boats, motor cruisers and motor yachts Aircraft f Small boats, canoes, rubber dinghies,...
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New Members of Committee of Management
Major Bertram Bell, Mr. Raymond Cory, Mr. John Russell, and Mr. Nigel Varrington Smyth, O.B.E., have been co-opted members of the Committee of Management of the Institution.
Major Bell, who lives in Fota Island (Co. Cork),...
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Remembering those lost
This year marks the centenary of the Fethard lifeboat disaster, when nine volunteers from the Co Wexford station died during a brave rescue attempt in unforgiving seas.
On 20 February 1914, 14 Fethard crew members launched...
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New Brunswick
On Sunday the 25th November, intelligence was received that a large foreign barque was riding at her anchors offBeachy Head Lighthouse, in a very dangerous position, with a signal of distress flying.
With as little delay as...
The Danish Life-Saving Service
FROM a communication received a short time since from Horr ANDERSEN, the Inspector of the Danish Life-saving Service, we learn that on the occasion of the visit of H.M. The KING OF DENMARK to the Skaw, on the 24th July last, a tabulated...
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Life-Boat Saturday Fund
NUMEROUS demonstrations and collec- tions in connection with the Life-boat Saturday Fund have been arranged and admirably carried out during the past summer. The reports which have come in from all parts of the country indicate that,...
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Rosa Alba
ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.—In response to signals from the Cork Light-ship the Life-boat Aldeburgh was launched at 6.18 P.M. on the 22nd March, in a strong N.N.W. wind and heavy sea. Shortly after she had left, a telephone message arrived reporting...
Howth
On the 2nd May a large four-masted barque was observed at anchor in Torbay flying a signal for assistance. The Coastguard reported the matter to the Harbour Master, and within a quarter of an hour of the crew being summoned the Life- boat...
The Sailing Skiff Rabbit
Margate, Kent.—At 1.44 on the after- noon of the 10th of August, 1957, the coastguard passed on a report from the police that a boat had capsized off Grenham Bay and another boat, with two men on board was trying to tow her. There was a...