ON the 8th April this year the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION decided to build and station a Steam Life-boat at Padstow, and it is of considerable inte- rest to pass in review the reasons which led the governing body to adopt such a...
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THE hundred and twelfth Annual Meeting of the governors of the Institution was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, at 3 P.M. on Wednesday, 6th May. Some 1,800 people were present.
H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, K.G., as...
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THE past year up to within the last ten days of September was a singularly uneventful one as regards Life-boat work; in fact, on the 22nd September the number of lives rescued by the Life-boats only totalled 65, and had the weather continued...
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On the 20th Oct., about 10.30 P.M., it then blowing a mode- rate gale at S.S.W. with a very heavy sea on, a man swam ashore about a mile north of Winterton Life-boat Station. An over- turned ship's boat lay beating about in the surf not...
Fallen from cliff AT 1620 ON APRIL 22 the Garda Siochana informed Dr O'Brien-Moran, deputy launching authority of Tramore ILB station, that a young man had fallen and was lying seriously injured at the base of the cliff just west of...
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Testing tow at Port St MaryWhen the Trent class Cough Ritchie II Launched, all that the crew knew was that a fishing boat was in trouble about 20 miles south east of Port St Mary in the Isle of Man. When they discovered that it was the large...
IN December, 1859, the Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION presented to Mr. CHARLES CLIFFORD, of London, a vote of thanks,' inscribed on vellum, in acknowledgment of his indefatigable exertions in inventing and...
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TAKE THE FERRY from Scrabster Harbour to Stromness. Cross the Pentland Firth from the north coast of Caithness to Mainland, Orkney, and already there is a growing feeling of vast distance, of wide horizons. A majestic, ponderous swell rolls...
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TWICE during th? past summer Life- boats have saved the lives of bathers who had got into difficulties. On each occasion the Life-boat was out on other duties and went to the rescue in the nick of time.
On the afternoon...
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