SHIPS have always been a favourite subject for stamps. Yet among this multipli- city of stamps concerned with the sea, comparatively little attention has been paid to that very necessary aspect of life at sea, namely, the life-boats which...
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Fishing vessel founders THE FRENCH FISHING VESSEL Cite d'Aleth, in distress, was reported to the honorary secretary of Rosslare Harbour lifeboat station by MRCC Shannon at 0634 on Wednesday January 12. At first it was reported that Cite...
An RNLI coxswain must be brave but what else does it take to inspire the confidence and trust of a modern-day crew?
On 9 July 2010, Mike Lawrence was not only in charge of Calshot’s Tyne class Alexander Coutanche but also...
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CAISTER AND WINTERTON, NORFOLK.— At 10 P.M. on the 1st June, a vessel was seen to get on the Middle Cross Sand and make signals of distress. The Caister No. 1 Life-boat Govent Garden was at once launched and proceeded to the...
St. Albans Answers the Challenge.
IN the last issue of The Lifeboat we gave the Southport Branch's record of mayoral help. The Mayor, during his term of office, serves as a member of the Branch Committee, while the...
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The history of the Institution is now i being written, and will be published in j j the autumn of 1923. The Secretary will be most grateful to all Honorary Secre- taries, especially of Station Branches, for every assistance which they may...
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IN 1933, for the third tune, an appeal was made to golf clubs to hold a com- petition in aid of the life-boat service.
In 1931 it was made to the principal clubs in Kent, Surrey and Sussex; in 1932 to the principal clubs in...
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CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE.—The barque Argo, of Fredrikstad, was totally wrecked near Macharioch on the 27th February, but happily nine of her crew were saved. The crew of the Life-boat at Southend were assembled, but as it was very doubtful...
Clogher Head, Co. Louth; Cloughey, and Newcastle, Co. Down.—At 11.15 A.M., on the 17th November, 1937, the Clogher Head motor life-boat Mary Ann Blunt was launched in an easterly gale, with a very heavy sea and rain, to search for a vessel...
Clogher Head, Co. Louth; Cloughey, and Newcastle, Co. Down.—At 11.15 A.M., on the 17th November, 1937, the Clogher Head motor life-boat Mary Ann Blunt was launched in an easterly gale, with a very heavy sea and rain, to search for a vessel...