JUNE 10TH. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO.
DUBLIN. At 9.15 in the morning the lifeboat’s assistant motor-mechanic reported a yacht up against the east pier. The wind was blowing very strongly from the northwest, and the sea was rough....
A canoeist comes ashore at Dugort Pier after a rescue by the Achill lifeboat. - View image in PDF
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The Third Boat by Leila Mackinlay (Ward Lock & Co. Ltd., I2s. 6d.) takes its title from a Manx superstition and this pleasant but somewhat fragmentary tale is rarely out of sight or sound of the sea. Moving from Morecambe Bay to the Isle...
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THE second annual Life-boat Matinee at the Lyceum Theatre, organised by the Central London Women's Committee of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, was held on the llth December, and realised £992 after all expenses had been...
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THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of tho boat, will serve to convoy an idea of the general character of one of the 303 Life-boat Stations...
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The Lady Florence Pery (Hon. Secretary of the Guild), the Duchess of Sutherland (President of the Guild), the Prince of Wales (President of the Institution), the Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (Patron of the Guild).. - View image in PDF
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AUGUST 11TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK. At 11.56 A.M. the coastguard reported that enemy aircraft were attacking shipping some seven miles S.E. of Aldeburgh.
A strong N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. A few minutes...
Penlee, Cornwall. At 6.12 on the morning of the 1st of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secre- tary that a vessel was ashore in St. Loy Bay. At 6.34 the life-boat W and S was launched in a slight sea, with a gentle...
On 24th. October, 1945, the St. Ives life-boat went to the help of the ketch "Minnie Flossie", of Bideford, and found her right in the surf with a man and woman clinging to her. The coxswain could see that there was not a moment to...
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TWO MEN RESCUED FROM FISHING BOAT Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
At 10.17 on the morning of the 1st April, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was burning flares and needed help. A...