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Lifeboat Services
Irish Division Capsize WEXFORD GARDA informed the honorary secretary of Kilmore Quay lifeboat station at 0115 on Saturday, December 24, 1977, that four red flares had been sighted off Bannow Bay towards the Saltees. At 0130 maroons were...
Category: Services
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Harwich: When on July 9 the Ex Revenue Cutter L'Atalanta Went Aground on Cork Sands With Six People on Board the Water Was Too Shallow for Harwich's 44' Waven
Harwich: When, on July 9, the ex revenue cutter L'Atalanta went aground on Cork Sands, with six people on board, the water was too shallow for Harwich's 44' Waveney lifeboat Margaret Graham to approach. Two crew members ran a tow... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 5th June, 1862. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
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While Producing a Christmas Show for Television Rolf Harris
While producing a Christmas show for television, Rolf Harris and his technicians had lunch and supper at the guest house belonging to Barney Chamber/in, Happisburgh station honorary secretary. Barnev (I) showed Rolf round the boathouse and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
House Style
The RNLI's Shoreworks Manager, Howard Richings, looks at the way that lifeboat houses have changed to reflect the changing demands made upon them In the early years RNLI boathouses were very basic.
Resources were scarce...
Category: Articles
A Cabin Cruiser
Outboard failure A RED HANDFLARE from a cabin cruiser about two miles east of Cullercoats Harbour was sighted by Tyne Coastguard at 1232 on Sunday September 26, 1982.
Cullercoats lifeboat station was informed and at 1239...
Today's Lifeboatmen
Today's lifeboatmen Coxswain Michael Grant of Selsey joined the crew in 1960 and served as second coxswain from 1972 to 1978, becoming the station's full-time coxswain on 1 November 1978.
He was awarded the Thanks...
Category: Articles
Books
• The 1981 edition of Reed's Nautical Almanac (Thomas Reed Publications, £7.95) marks the golden jubilee of this popular publication. There cannot be many lifeboats which do not have a copy of Reed's on the chart table and the...
Category: Articles