PORTPATRICK, January 8, 1988: with her propeller fouled by her fishing gear, MFV Dumnonia was drifting on to a lee shore, four miles away in a force 8 gale and in darkness. Portpatrick's 48ft 6in Solent class lifeboat Douglas Carrie... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
SEPTEMBER 15TH. - DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN. At 8.40 in the morning the Ramsey coastguard reported a steamer in need of help off Douglas Head. A south-westerly breeze was blowing, and the sea was very rough.
The motor life-boat...
Summer 2009 winners
1st prize: Peugeot 107 Urban 3-door hatchback, Mr D Lowman, London (pictured on his VIP visit to Tower lifeboat station)
2nd prize: 13-night cruise onboard Balmoral to the Canary...
Category: Articles
On the 12th Feb. two of the Filey fishing vessels, the Admiral Mitford, and the Thomas and Mary, which were in the Bay, sent their small boats ashore with fish, leaving only a man and a boy in each yawl. While the men were occupied on the...
LIFEBOAT OPERATIONS MANAGER | DUN LAOGHAIRE
I was picked up by a lifeboat in 1970 when I was 12 and I joined the crew in 1975, so that’s about 40 years. I try to attend most shouts. It’s important to be there when the lads get... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On the 2nd January, while the fishing fleet was at sea, the wind freshened and most of the boats ran for harbour, but three of them—Gloaming, Miseltoe and Victory —which were farther out than the rest, stayed to try and get up their...
By the death of Mr. George B.
Dixon, of Walthamstow, at the age of seventy-six, the Institution has lost one of its most valued honorary secretaries. He was appointed honor- ary secretary in 1923, and, in spite of the...
Category: Obituaries
— The motor life-boat J. and W. put out at 10.40 A.M. on the 12th March, in a moderate N.E. gale, with a heavy sea, to search for the motor fishing boat Unity, which had been reported to be in distress with an engine breakdown about seven...
THE life-boat Christmas card and calendar, with a reproduction in colour of the service of the Ballycotton motor life-boat to the Daunt Rock lightship, of which particulars were given in the last issue of The Life-boat, can still be obtained...
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How each £100 of the Institution's Income was obtained in 1949.
£ s. d.
26 6 6 • •M MW Subscriptions, Donations, Collecting Boxes, and Special Efforts, 15 1 9 K ...
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