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Donaghadee Co Down and Portpatrick Wigtownshire

Date: Autumn 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 494

The distance between Donaghadee, Co Down and Portpatrick, Wigtownshire, is approximately 22 miles and is one of the trickiest sea crossings in UK waters. On one Saturday in July 1985, after waiting a week for a favourable weather forecast,... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1929

Date: March 1930

Volume: 28

Issue: 301

Time of 1929. Launching.

Jan. 1. 1.45p.m.

1. 2.40p.m.

„ 2. 10.0 a.m.

„ 2. 3.15p.m.

„ 5-6. 3.39p.m.

9. 11.25...

Category: Services

The French Barque Duc d' Aumale

Date: February 1916

Volume: 23

Issue: 259

On the 17th July, during a moderate N.N.W. gale and rough sea, information was received that a barque was ashore on the Kentish Knock Sands, with a flag signal flying, which could not be distinguished on account of the rain. The No. 2 Life-...

Talvaldis

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

JULY 9TH. - SALCOMBE, AND TORBAY, DEVON. At 7.10 P.M. the Prawle Point Signal Station reported that a vessel was being bombed by enemy aeroplanes three or four miles away. A fresh S.W. wind was blowing, but the sea was smooth. At 7.30...

Letters

Date: Summer 1977

Volume: 45

Issue: 461

One family's century Thank you for your very kind letter regarding my coming resignation from the Committee of Management. It is sad to think that, after more than 100 years, there will be no Cave on the C.

of M. I am...

Category: Correspondence

Run up to Christmas

Date: Autumn 2010

Volume: 61

Issue: 593

It’s time to get in training for a Reindeer Run near you (just think how many mince pies you’ll burn off in advance)!

This year, the RNLI’s most festive fundraiser will take place at 13 different venues in late November...

Category: Articles

Thank God for the Life-Boat Men!

Date: February 1911

Volume: 21

Issue: 239

WHEN the blue of the sky can be seen no more, And the sunlight fades from the distant shore; When a murmur runs in the rising wind, Like some lone bird that is lost and blind; And the cloud-bank lying so low astern Is counterfeiting the...

Category: Poetry

John

Date: August 1892

Volume: 15

Issue: 165

DUNGARVAN, Co. WATERFORD. — 1.20 P.M. on the 8th January, the Lifeboat William Dunville was launched, a signal of distress having been shown by the fishing cutter John. It was found that the boat had lost her mast, which in falling had...

Awards to Honorary Workers

Date: June 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 400

Honorary Life-Governor MR. WILLIAM JAMES has been appointed an honorary life-governor of the Institution in recognition of the valuable help he has given to the life-boat service for forty-three years as honorary secretary of the Runswick...

Category: Awards

The Life-Boat Regulations

Date: April 1869

Volume: 07

Issue: 72

THE following Regulations are Intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is ; stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT Is- I strrirnoif, and to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew,...

Category: Committee