ARANMORE ISLAND, COUNTY DONEGAL.
—On the application of the local residents, the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat establishment on Aran- more Island on the north-west coast of Ireland. The coast in...
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Sailing Chanty.
BY CAPTAIN Q. C. A. CRAUFURD, R.N., honorary secretary of the Dungeness life-boat station.
" It seemed scarcely possible that the life-boat could reach the ketch before she broke up....
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THE interest of the natives of the Gold Coast in the life-boat service has on several occasions been mentioned in this journal. The Institution has received letters from them written to it as a general stores, as " the best dealers in...
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Injured men A HANG GLIDER crashed on the rocks of Beachy Head and the pilot badly injured was reported to Eastbourne lifeboat station by Fairlight Coastguard at 1524.on April 23. Eight minutes later the D class ILB was launched and, crewed...
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH, K.G., IN THE CHAIR.
l.:—Moved by the CHAIRMAN :- i the Institution lave been rendered avail- [ able for the Saving of so many Lives 1.—That the following Noblemen and , during the...
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Whitby, Yorkshire.—In the early morning of the 8th of April, 1949, the local motor fishing boat Pilot Me II left for the fishing grounds, was over- taken by bad weather and decided to return to Whitby. At half past six the life-boat coxswain...
For the third year Ray Rushton offered his car, a 1904 Wolseley, to the RNLI for sponsorship in last November's Veteran Car Run. His passenger was Charlie Smithers, Comedian of The Year in 1974. More than £3,000 was raised. In... - View image in PDF
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Freemen of the Sea, by Dora Walker (A. Brown & Sons, Ltd., B.C. 1. 10/6) Miss DORA WALKER, who is president of the Whitby Ladies' Life-boat Guild, has written a charming anecdotal book about the seafarers of Whitby; a series of...
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Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 12.31 in the afternoon of the 9th of December, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that the West Mersea police had reported a fishing boat drifting towards Colne, and at 12.48 the life-boat Edward...
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