Environmental disaster prevented Bronze medal for Thurso Coxswain and awards to Thurso and Longhope crewsThurso lifeboat Coxswain William Farquhar has been awarded the RNLI's Bronze Medal for bravery for his part in an incident involving...
Launches of Life-boats.
Including those in which no service was rendered.
Launches before the end of war on 8th May - - - - - - - 2 0 4 Launches after the end of war - - - - - - - - - - - 2 9 3 Total of...
Category: Annual Reports
ON the 16th of September, 1951, the Boulogne Life-boat Society inaugur- ated the new life-boat and station which have replaced those destroyed in the war. The ceremony was at- tended by the Dover life-boat, Southern Africa, and her crew, Mr....
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The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy (maximum 28 Ibs., minimum 25 Ibs.) to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support...
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In the Life-boat Journal for November 1890, will be found a full description of j the first steam Life - boat, Duke of Northumberland, which boat has been' continuously "in commission," so to speak, since that year, first at...
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Holy Island, Northumberland. — A t 10.40 A.M. on the 7th January the second coxswain reported that the local motor fishing coble Reliance was at sea. A moderate S.E. wind was blowing. The sea was heavy and breaking right across the bar. The...
DRIFTING SAND BARGE TAKEN IN TOW The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 12.20 on the morning of the 31st March, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor sand barge Tony of Hull had broken adrift with one man on board...
YACHT AGROUND At 1.40 p.m. on 2ist May, 1966, a yacht was reported in difficulties one mile east of Llanbedrog Point and about three miles south west of the station. The IRB was launched at 1.45 in a strong south westerly wind and a rough...
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger sizes, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
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Valentia, Co. Kerry—On the 24th of March, 1950, the Commissioners of the Irish Lights asked the life-boat to relieve the Skelligs Rocks and Inish- tearaght Rocks Lighthouses as, by arrangement with the Commissioners, she had been made...