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Working Away...
'Oh, we'll be there from about eight, see you when you arrive' said the cheerful voice on the other end of the phone. As I put the handset down I reflected on the distance some of those 'we's would have to travel to be at...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 9th May, 1889.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., M.P., Y.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and Correspondence...
Category: Committee
Annual Report
The ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, was held at Willis's Booms, King Street, St. James's Square, on Thursday, the 17th day of March 1881. In the absence of His Grace THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O...
Category: Annual Reports
Sirena II
Swanage, Dorset - At 10.38 a.m. on 5th June, 1966, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht had been dismasted and was firing flares two miles south east of St. Alban's Head. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 10.46 in a...
Past Times (1)
Man overboard The dangers of the sea were tragically demonstrated on 18 March 2006 when David Clear was washed off his yacht, Past Times, off St Aldhelm's Head near Swanage, Dorset. His inexperienced crew member made a Mayday call but...
Bookshelf
The Mary Stanford Disaster by Geoff Hutchinson published by the author at £2.25 plus 50p post and packing ISBN 095199361 5 First published in 1984 The Mary Stanford Disaster, recounting the events at Rye Harbour in 1928, has been...
Category: Articles
11-hour rescue
10 March: Kilmore Quay, Co Wexford Volunteer crew endured an 11-hour call out to bring five people on a stricken 23m fishing vessel safely home. Kilmore Quay RNLI rescued the crew after their boat suffered...
Category: Articles
AQUA SOOTHE
Summer's fun with TravelLite DeLuxe; Compact and ultralight, the new uniquely portable TravelLite Deluxe"" can easily be folded up and put in the car for family days out or shopping trips. •! *« • *« © • Folds...
Category: Advertisement
Fairy Glen
Guns and rockets were fired from the Gull and East Goodwin light-vessels at 5 A.M. on the 23rd March, during a strong S.W. wind and a heavy sea. The Bradford Life-boat was towed out by the harbour steam-tug Aid, and found the schooner Fairy...
First Man to Greet the Atlantic Heroes Captain John Ridgway and Sergeant Chay Blyth When They Stepped Ashore at Kilronan on the Aran Islands on 3rd September, 1966
First man to greet the Atlantic heroes, Captain John Ridgway and Sergeant Chay Blyth when they stepped ashore at Kilronan, on the Aran Islands, on 3rd September, 1966, after their 92 day voyage of 3,000 miles, was Father Joseph McNamara, the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs