The following extract was taken from a paper presented to the ninth international life-boat conference in Edinburgh, 1963, by Lieut.-Commander Robert W. Witter, Chief, Boat Section, Naval Engineering Division, United States Coast Guard.<...
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THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar.
The card will be a reproduction in colour of the picture below. It is a photograph of the Hastings life-boat returning from service and is reproduced...
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John Devereux, 43, of Kilmore Quay lifeboat station joined the crew in 1968 and served as assistant motor mechanic in the years from April 1974 to January 1982, when he was appointed coxswain.
On Christmas Eve 1977, Kilmore...
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SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT SALCOMBE DEC. 7TH. - SALCOMBE, AND PLYMOUTH, DEVON. Early in the morning the Belgian steamer Louis Sheid, of over 6,000 tons, was in the English Channel on her way to Antwerp. She had a crew of forty-six men. She saw...
GOLD MEDAL SERVICE AT ARRANMORE DECEMBER 7TH. - ARRANMORE, CO. DONEGAL. In the early morning a message was received at the lifeboat station on Arranmore Island, off the north-west coast of Ireland, that a vessel, in convoy, had gone on a...
IT is with much pleasure that we record that the King of Denmark has gener- ously recognised the courageous, but tragic, service of the Johnshaven Life- boat James Marsh, last December, to the Danish schooner Fredensborg. The service was...
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LIKE the he . t of a woman (pathetic and tender), Tet stalwart and strong, with a soul ever true: Alert with pure courage his service to render— These are the men in the jerseys of blue.
For whenever the storm with its...
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St. Andrews, Fifeshire, and Thurso, Caithness-shire.
Two gallant services were carried out by Life-boats in Scotland during March., one by the Pulling and Sailing Life- boat at St. Andrews, Fifeshire, and the other by the...
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New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 6.4 P.M.
on the 15th January, 1938, the coastguard reported that a small vessel was in distress five miles W.N.W. of Bar Buoy, and that the steamer Millais was standing by. This was confirmed by...
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.^At 10.30 on the night of the 22nd of December, 1955, a telephone message was received from the Coast Life-Saving Service in Dub- lin that the motor vessel Gansey, of Castletown, had wirelessed that she had damaged her...