On the evening of the 4th January a S.W. gale was blowing with a heavy sea and rain, and as a small fishing boat, with one man on board, had not returned, it was thought advisable to send a life-boat out to search. The No. 1 motor life-boat,...
JUNE 7TH. - FENIT, CO. KERRY. At two in the morning a message was received that a motor fishing boat, with five men on board, was adrift in Tralee Bay. A fresh to strong south-west-to-west wind was blowing and the sea was choppy. At 2.20...
AS THE RNLI celebrates its 150th anniversary, it is appropriate to acknowledge the help it has given many lifesaving services throughout the world. This help has taken many forms, one of the most significant being in the area of coastal...
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Around and about the RNLI A swarm of Flying Bs The names of the prize winners in the 49th national lottery were pulled from the drum at the Poole headquarters on 30 April by members of the Bentley Drivers' Club.
The...
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some recent publications reviewed HEAVY WEATHER SAILING by K. Adlard Coles, revised by Peter Bruce published by Adlard Coles Nautical at £30 ISBN 07136 3431 6 'Heavy Weather Sailing' has long been the standard textbook on the...
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The equipment in everyday use aboard a lifeboat has developed to the point where it has evolved its own jargon, almost as arcane as the language of the sea itself. In this, the first of an occasional series on the technicalities of lifeboats...
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Tower Lifeboat Station is the busiest in the UK. To find out exactly what life is like for the crew members that save lives on the capital's most famous waterway, Writer Catherine Richards spent 24 hours shadowing a shift ....
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A LAMENTABLE case of wreck, attended with great loss of life, and one highly dis- creditable to our country, we regret to say, occurred at the Hook Point, Waterford, early in the present year. We would gladly be spared the pain of recording...
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The Calendar.
THE Institution is again issuing a life- boat calendar and a Christmas card.
The calendar will have on it a reproduction in colours of a picture by the late Mr. Charles Dixon, R.I., of the...
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WE think the following interesting account of an extraordinary and a gallant act, on the part of a student of divinity, in rescuing a shipwrecked crew is deserving of a record in the pages of the Life-boat Journal:-— We extract it from Dr....
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