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Current affairs
Ireland’s ‘voice of the sea’ may have stepped away from the microphone – but Tom MacSweeney is as vocal as ever when it comes to marine matters
For two decades, Tom MacSweeney’s voice has been synonymous with Ireland’s...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
ON CHRISTMAS EVE, Kilmore lifeboat was capsized twice. One member of the crew, Finton Sinnott, lost his life.
This sad accident caused the first loss of life following the capsize of one of the RNLI's lifeboats since...
Category: Articles
Duke of Northumberland's Life-Boat Essay Competition, for Elementary Schools, 1939
" You are at the seaside. You get into conversation with a fisherman and find that he is the life-boat coxswain. Describe your conversation with him." IN 1938 the competitors in the essay competition were asked to imagine...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
CONDITIONS OUTSIDE LIMITS FOR D CLASS Surfer saved by inshore lifeboat in severe gale and heavy seas Helmsman Stuart Roberts of Porthcawl's D class inshore lifeboat was awarded a Silver Medal for outstanding bravery during the rescue of...
Category: Services
The Fundraisers
Helping hand The Mayor of St. Albans, the Revd Cllr Robert Donald, assisted St. Albans and district branch with a successful collection on 13 December 1996. The collection took place outside Safeways supermarket in Fleetville, St. Albans and...
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Special Committee Meeting. 19th March
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
Read the following Report of the Chief In- spector and District Inspector of Life-boats on their inquiries into the circumstances attending the accidents to the...
Category: Committee
The French Life-Boat Society. Boat-House With Movable Platform at La Joliette, Marseilles
THE Societe Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufrages has recently found itself obliged to provide a pontoon boat-house for one of its motor boats, owing to the difficulty of obtaining a satisfactory site for a boat-house and slipway in the...
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H.M. Trawler Blackburn Rovers
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT DOVER Nov. 26TH. - DOVER, KENT.
During the morning H.M. Trawler Blackburn Rovers, with 16 men on board, was on anti-submarine patrol off Dover near the minefields. A full gale was blowing from the...
The S.S. Somali (1)
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT BOULMER MA R C H 2 7 T H . - B O U L M E R , NORTH SUNDERLAND, AND HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
During the night of the 26th of March a large steamer was seen to be on fire off the Northumbrian coast...
Tonnage Admeasurement (Continued)
IN the article on this subject in oar last number we stated that nine out of the twelve members of the Royal Commission on Tonnage were unanimous in their recommendations; that three of their number objected to sign the Report, viz., Messrs....
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