AUGUST 2 5TH. - GALWAY BAY, CO.
GALWAY. At 10 A.M. a m e s s a g e w a s received from the military coastguard lookout at Oghil Lighthouse that a boat was drifting four miles to the south-west, but it was not certain if...
Jeff Morris, the honorary archivist of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts' Society is a prolific source of booklets on individual lifeboat stations and historical lifeboat matters. Few issues of THE LIFEBOAT pass without an opportunity to review...
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Charles Dixon and the
Golden Age of Marine
Painting
by Stuart Boyd
Review by Carol Waterkeyn
Charles Dixon was one of the greatest maritime artists, living from 1872 to...
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HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER, who celebrated her eightieth birthday this year, has been concerned with the RNLI for more than a third of its history, for her active support of the lifeboat service goes right back to the...
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Lt E. Gough, the RNLI's staff officer (Communications), sent the message Uniform Whisky One (UW1) to the Boys' Brigade at Aigburth, Liverpool, after they had raised £36 by mounting a display about the sea, doing figure marching...
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MUTUAL AID OFF PORTLAND FOLLOWING the sighting at about 10 p.m. on 4th February, 1972, by the gas tanker Methane Princess of a small vessel firing distress flares off Portland Bill, the Weymouth, Dorset, life-boat was prepared for launching....
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Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present
Crew member ensures safe berth
‘It was a truly amazing experience for us’
As a Courtmacsherry Harbour...
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They have helped Harry Potter out of a few scrapes on the big screen – but what real lifesaving antics have cinema’s favourite twins been getting up to?
Filmgoers have been under Harry Potter’s...
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ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At 6.30 in the evening of the 3rd of March, 1946, the police reported that two boys were cut off by thetide on the rocks at Lee. A strong northerly breeze was blowing and raising a rough sea.
Mr. S....
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The Norfolk Coast is the title of a little book by Neville Long which is published by Geoffrey Dibb Ltd., of Brundall, Norfolk, price 6s. 5d. including postage. Mr. Long, who is up to date with his facts, writes: 'So these chapters have...
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