MONTROSE, N.B.—On the 21st July 1879 the Mincing Lane Life-boat rendered some assistance to the Dutch fishing-smack Nooit Polmakt, which had gone too far to the northward while running for the harbour, and had stranded on the Annat Bank...
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6O years ago From THE LIFE-BOAT of 1938 THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats. 137 : Pulling & Sailing Life-boats. 30 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to March 31 si. 1938 65.625 A difficult launch at Exmouth...
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by Rick Tomlinson/ Rothmans Sailing Donaghadee's Arun Class lifeboat City of Belfast shows her mettle in some heavy weather near her station.
Next Issue: The Summer issue of THE LIFEBOAT will appear in July 1993, and... - View image in PDF
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COVER PICTURE by Maggie Murray The four Bronze Medallists arrive at the Festival Pier before the Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards. Full details in the report on page 194 in this issue.
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by Paul Ferraby The Institution's fundraisers take advantage of the glorious June weather to display their wares against the backdrop of Swanage Bay and the town's new Mersey class lifeboat Robert Charles... - View image in PDF
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SEPTEMBER 18TH. -PORT ERIN, AND PEEL, ISLE OF MAN. At 11.21 in the morning the Castletown coastguard reported to the Port Erin life-boat station that the Peel life-boat, had launched at eleven o’clock to search for the herring drifter Manx...
YET ANOTHER MATERNITY CASE Aith, Shetlands.— At 4.30 in the morn- ing of the 16th of March, 1947, the services ^of the life-boat were requested for a maternity case at Sandsound.
The woman had been unsuccessfully...
Portrush, Co. Antrim; Campbeltown, Argyllshire; and Donaghadee, Co. Down.
—On the morning of the 12th of July, 1952, a man, together with his wife and two sons, were cruising off the coast of County Antrim in the...
Thursday, 5th April, 1860. THOMAS BARING, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P.,in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committee.
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Three trawlermen aground in a gale take a courageous leap of faith …
Jonathan Connor was spending his Sunday evening studying. The trainee crew member was at Kinsale Lifeboat Station, working on an RNLI course, when he...
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