THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Dover lifeboat station received a call from HM Coastguard at 1649 on Saturday May 12, 1979, telling him that a motor boat had been reported aground but that the sighting was being checked. Just over an hour later,...
Correct method of holding an Icarus rocket for firing (the firing lever is shown in its cocked position at the base of the right-hand thumb).. - View image in PDF
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Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 12.50 in the afternoon of the 12th of September, 1949, the chairman of the Youghal life- boat station telephoned that he was anxious for the safety of his son and another man who had left Youghal for Cork in...
Reunion at Torbay in May for five retired coxswains and one retired motor mechanic.
(I. to r.) Coxswain Frederick Sanders, Motor Mechanic Richard Harris, Coxswain Henry Thomas, Coxswain Abraham Bartlett, Coxswain Harold... - View image in PDF
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TENBY.—During a strong gale from the S.E. and a heavy sea on the morning of the 1st January, 1888, signals of distress were shown by the ketch Louisa, of Cardiff, bound for Tenby with a cargo of coal, which was lying at anchor in Caldy Koads...
Children from the class of Mrs Harrison at Bodmin County Primary Infants' School acted out the Grace Darling story for the rest of the school and, after making a "mile of pennies", they collected over £52 the Grace Darling... - View image in PDF
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IN our issue of November, 1911, we observed that the Board of Trade had issued their "Abstracts on Shipping Casualties" earlier than usuai, thus enabling us to publish our article on the Wreck Register in November instead of...
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Amble, Northumberland October 7 Angle, Dyfed October 1, 7 and November 4 Anstruther, Fife September 28 Arklow, Co. Wicklow October 2 Arranmore, Co. Donegal September 18, 20, October 4 and November 5 Ballycotton, Co. Cork November 8 Baltimore...
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UNTIL 1921 all the Institution's motor life-boats were of a weight which made it necessary that they should either lie afloat or be launched down a slip-way.
In that year, the first boat was sta- tioned at Eastbourne of...
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