Galway inshore lifeboat crew members were paged at 11.45pm and, 15 minutes later, the B class Atlantic 75 Dóchas (which means ‘hope’) was launched. Aboard were Helmsman Brian Niland and Crew Members Ciaran Oliver and Michael Swan,... - View image in PDF
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'Ned', the barge horse, and Mr. E. Wrangles, who was sponsored by 140 people for £137, were two of the participants in the Hertford walk in aid of the R.N.L.I, along the towpath of the River Lee from Hertford to Dobbs Weir last... - View image in PDF
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St. Mary's, Scilly Islands.—At 3.25 on the afternoon of the 10th of August, 1957, the Telegraph coastguard report- ed that a sailing dinghy had capsized between St. Mary's and St. Martin's and that two boys were in the water.<...
January gales A HALFDECKER motor fishing boat was seen to be dragging her anchors off Arranmore, Aran Island, on the afternoon of Wednesday January 11, 1984.
A gale was blowing from the north west, the seas were very rough...
Dunbar, East Lothian. At 10.15 on the morning of the 3rd of October, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the motor fishing vessel Snowdrop of Inverness was disabled off the Bass Rock, six miles east of...
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 4.48 on the afternoon of the 18th of August, 1956, the Foreland coastguard rang up to say that the Cowes police had re- ported a yacht aground on the East Brambles, which was being pounded severely. The life-boat...
The local motor fishing boats Pilot Me and Success put to sea early on the morning of the 5th December in moderate weather. Later the wind and sea rose, and as it had been raining heavily since the previous night, the river was running...
20 May 1999 - A major engineering feat, the completion of the new pierhead lifeboat station and slipway at Cromer, was celebrated inside the boathouse with the help of the Bishop of Norwich, the Very Reverend Peter Nott, RNLI Deputy Chairman... - View image in PDF
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Thursday, 9th July, 1914.
The Rt. Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., V.P., in the Chair. Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Read the minutes of the Building, Finance and Correspondence,...
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Tynemouth, Northumberland. — Late in the afternoon of the 4th' of July, 1948, a sudden freak squall broke from the north and at 4.59 the coastguard telephoned that three small sailing yachts had capsized in the...