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Category: Advertisement
Atlantic Watch: Ireland's Western Lifeboat Stations Arranmore Galway Bay and Valentia By Ray Kipling Public Relations Officer Rnli
'The wind was of hurricane force, with fierce squalls accompanied by snow and sleet and the seas were mountainous.
' ... 'It took two hours to board the lifeboat and three times the boarding boat was driven back...
Category: Articles
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management
February Meeting.
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—On the 2nd January, 1939, the crew of four of the motor trawler Yankee Girl were rescued by another fishing boat.—Rewards, £2 105., with £3 for loss of fishing, and 2s. 6d....
Category: Services
"God Bless The" Life-Boat Men
" GOD bless the" Life-boat Men.
"Long live the Noble" Men, " God bless the" Men.
And may they ever be When, toss'd on stormy sea, In safety kept by Thee.
Category: Poetry
Agm from Page 87
from page 87 Miss F. M. Coleman Honorary secretary of Shipston-on- Stour branch since 1940; awarded record of thanks in 1948 and silver badge in 1963.
Mrs A. L. Kenyon President of Bramhall and Woodford ladies' guild...
Category: Meetings
Central Appeals Committee
THE CENTRAL APPEALS COMMITTEE met for its final meeting at the Royal Festival Hall on Thursday, May 8, following the annual general meeting.
The CAC had been formed at a time when income was not balancing...
Category: Committee
Failsafe Part 1- Capsizing and Righting By James Paffett Rcnc Ceng Frina Honfni Frsa Chairman of the Technical Consultative Committee
ON APRIL 10, 1983, Salcombe's 47ft Watson lifeboat The Baltic Exchange, searching for missing divers at the southern end of Start Bay, was hit by mountainous seas in a force 11 storm.
The first of two tremendous seas, a...
Category: Articles
A Clear Day and a Pleasant Setting Made a Coffee Morning Run By Mr and Mrs Wilkes In Their Caravan-Type Home at Acaster Malbis York a Tremendous Event Despite
A clear day and a pleasant setting made a coffee morning run by Mr and Mrs Wilkes in their caravan-type home at Acaster Malbis, York, a tremendous event.
Despite the limited space available Mr and Mrs Wilkes were able to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Nicholas Schrager Who Owns the Victorian Thames Motorboat Duchess Doreen and Who Uses Her As a Floating Restaurant Offered His Craft and Cuisine to Molesey Branch for One Evening By Raf
Nicholas Schrager, who owns the Victorian Thames motorboat Duchess Doreen and who uses her as a floating restaurant, offered his craft and cuisine to Molesey branch for one evening. By raffling the 12 places available £270 was earned... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An All-Night Service at Selsey
ON the afternoon of the 17th of November, 1951, a south-westerly gale was blowing at Selsey and the seas were very rough, particularly in the shallow water near the Owers Banks. At five minutes past four the Selsey coast- guard reported to...
Category: Services