Interests of Enthusiasts embrace . . . lifeboat history: Zetland, the oldest lifeboat in existence, built by Henry Greathead in 1800 and now housed in the Zetland Lifeboat Museum, Redcar.. . . the technical development of new lifeboats:... - View image in PDF
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Beaumaris, Anglesey - At 8.50 a.m.
on 1st November, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties in Conway Bay. The lifeboat Field Marshal and Mrs Smuts was launched at...
IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free; The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is smiling down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven is on the sea; Listen!—the Mighty Being is awake, And doth with...
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THE Royal Commission appointed at the instance of Mr. Plimsoll " to inquire into the alleged unseaworthiness of British registered ships," has issued a " pre- liminary" report. The report is signed by all the...
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The same life-boat and two steam-tugs also succeeded, with much difficulty, in rescuing the ship Constantia, of Bremen, and her crew1 of 26 men, that vessel having grounded on the Goodwin Sands, in a heavy gale of wind, with heavy snow-...
Margate, Kent.—At 7.25 in the even- ing of the 10th April, 1948, information was received from the Broadstairs police through the coastguard that a fishing boat was in difficulties about a mile off Kingsgate. The motor life-boat The Lord...
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Roland Moore of Barrow. He was appointed second coxswain in 1941 and after a break for war service became coxswain in 1947. In 1958 he was awarded the bronze medal for gallantry for a service in which...
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MAY 4TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At 7.55 in the evening the coastguard reported a small boat drifting two miles north of St. David’s Head. A strong northeasterly breeze was blowing and the sea was rough. The motor...
Picking up hospital cases is one of the many duties undertaken by life-boats. Here a seaman from the Esso tanker s.s. Canterbury, who was suffering from acute appendicitis, is being lowered to the Valentia life-boat from Kerry,... - View image in PDF
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The portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Michael Harrington, of Bal- timore. He first joined the Baltimore crew in 1943 and was second coxswain from 1945 to 1950. He was appointed coxswain on the 1st of April, 1950.
Since...
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