As our readers are aware, the subjects treated on in this journal have been exclusively those which are either directly, or indirectly, connected with the function of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION—the " Preservation of Life...
Category: Articles
SIR,—When I was in St. Paul's Cathe- dral a few months since, I was moved afresh at the sight of the magnificent monuments to our great naval and mili- tary heroes, particularly those of Lord Nelson and the Duke of Wellington; and, as I...
Category: Correspondence
Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 2.35 p.m. on 14th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that four cobles, one of which had 25 passengers on board, were still at sea in rapidly deteriorating weather conditions.
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THE first Life-boat Station was estab- lished in Ireland, at Arklow, in 1826, two years after the foundation of the Institu- tion itself, and since then the Institution has continued to maintain the Life-boats on the Irish coast, where it...
Category: Articles
Baltimore, Co. Cork.—At 10.45 on the morning of the 21st of September, 1953, a message was received from Toe Head, Castletownshend, that the trawler Anne Gaston, of France, which had a crew of nine, had been wrecked at Toe Head. At 11.30 the...
AUGUST 12TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 10.55 in the morning a report was received from returning fishermen that a boat was believed to have capsized as she left the fishing grounds in Pegwell Bay. A strong south-south-west breeze was blowing and...
Girvan, Ayrshire. About one o'clock in the afternoon of the 21st of Novem- ber, 1951, when a gale was blowing, a message was heard on a fishing boat'swireless set in the harbour at Girvan that several fishing boats had left Whiting...
Launches 90 Lives Rescued 61 During January and February life-boats put out to the rescue ninety times and rescued sixty-one lives, and the Institution gave to its crews and launchers for these services, and for assemblies of crews, rewards...
Category: Services
St. Peter Port, Boulmer, Cloughey and Clogher Head.
DURING September four Inaugural Cere- monies of Motor Life-boats took place, making a total of twenty-two such cere- monies held this year. The accounts of the other...
Category: Inaugurations
ABERSOCH.—On the11th November, at about 3 P.M., the schooner Jane and Ellen, Nefyn, which had parted from her anchors, was observed to show a signal of distress, having struck on a bank at the mouth of the river Soch, during a heavy gale...