I LOOK out of my window, and find that the snow is falling thickly, and that the wind is blowing in from the sea. I raise the Bash and listen, and hear the roar of the rising tide upon the beach. It is the boom of the growing...
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Reported to the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management.
May Meeting.
Longhope, Orkney, and Thurso, Caith- ness-shire.—The Longhope motor life- boat Thomas McCunn was launched at 11.30...
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DIVE IN FOR A SPLASHING GREAT TIME RNLI supporters are usually too concerned with events on the sea's surface to wonder about whotjfalit be happening down below the waves.
Exploring the magical world fTenwnh the surface...
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The bronze medal for gallantry was awarded to Coxswain William Morris for the service on March 11 ofSt David's lifeboat, the 47ft Watson Joseph Soar (Civil Service No 34), to MFV 7.
photograph by courtesy of RAF... - View image in PDF
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MONTROSE, FORFARSHIRE.—On the evening of the 1st January one of the fishermen reported that a vessel was showing a light, evidently in close proximity to the Annat Bank. The Life-boatmen were at once assembled and the No. 1 Life-beat Sarah...
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Lifeboatman injured AT 05 15 ON FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1988 Mr Llew Hardy the station honorary secretary of Swanage lifeboat was advised by Portland Coastguard that the MV Renee was in difficulties in heavy seas 10 miles south south west of...
A STERN TEST Inshore lifeboats are equipped with powerful engines to reach casualties quickly, but many rescues call for some strong handiwork too. Rory Stamp reports The skipper knew it wouldn’t be easy to get his yacht Sub Woofer back into...
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SEPTEMBER
Launches 52. Lives rescued 115.
SEPT. 2ND. - WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE.
At 6.36 A.M. the coastguard informed the life-boat authorities that the trawler Washington, of Grimsby,...
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Friday, 9th January, 1920.
Mr. HENRY B. FARGUS in the chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contributions:— £. s. d.
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (don.) 5 - - CIVIL...
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IT is with deep regret that we record the following deaths: December, 1985 Coxswain William Crowley, who joined the Fenit, Co Kerry, lifeboat crew in 1928. He was bowman from 1936 to 1938, second coxswain from 1938 to 1942 and from 1945 to...
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