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Notre Dame du Sacre Coeur
Fishing boat sinking ROSSLARE HARBOUR OFFICE informed Storeman R. Walshe at 1130 on Thursday December 7, 1978, that a Swedish cargo vessel had relayed a distress signal from a fishing boat sinking off Tuskar Rock. Maroons were fired at 1135,...
Rnli Medals and the Royal Mint By Oliver Warner
FROM ITS FOUNDATION in 1824, until the reign of George V, the Institution's medals were designed by officials of the Royal Mint. By courtesy of the Deputy Master, I am able to illustrate photographs of the original dies (Figs. 1 and 2),...
Category: Medals
Notes of the Quarter
THE first quarter of 1963 was a period in which a number of important advances were made in the develop- ment of life-boat design and in the task, which is a continuous one, of modernizing and re-equipping the life- boat service as a whole....
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
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Centenaries of Life-Boat Stations
Two stations celebrated their centen- aries in 1951: Lytham and New- biggin; and three in 1952: Cullercoats, Rhyl and Tenby.
A vellum was presented to each station by the Institution, signed by the Duchess of Kent as its...
Category: Articles
Other IRB Launches
In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 46, 59, and 65, the following launches on service were made during the months of September to November, 1966, inclusive: Abersoch,...
Category: Services
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse.—Bust of His Majesty KINO EVWAKD VII. Double Legend: "Royal National Lite-boat Institution. Founded in 1824. Incorporated 1860. King Edward VII. Patron."...
Category: Medals
A Principle Which Was Established By William Wouldhave
To make a boat self-righting keep the centre of gravity low and centre of buoyancy high, so that she is unstable when upside down - a principle which was established by William Wouldhave in 1789 and still holds true on today's... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
White and Black: Two Heroes
By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.
I HOPE that no one who receives this issue of The Life-Boat will fail to read the story of Victor Rojas, well named " The Providence of the Shipwrecked,"...
Category: Articles