The Sails of a Life-boat are of No. 5 or No. 6 canvas, made from the finest flax, and tanned with bark to render them rot-proof. They are now all cut with a very high peak, and consist in most cases of a jib and standing fore and mizen lugs,...
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Jim Davidson and Cetrek MD Geoff Warde hold the cheque which funded the D class Cetrek - in which they are standing - at the London Boat Show. With them are Ian Ventham (nearest camera) the RNLI's head of fundraising and two members of... - View image in PDF
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SEPTEMBER 12TH. - PORT ERIN, AND PEEL, ISLE OF MAN. The Danish steamer Marianne Toft of Copenhagen, had sunk after collision with another vessel. Twelve of her crew landed in a ship’s boat, but ten others in another boat could not be found.-...
The 52ft Arun lifeboat Richard Evans at her naming. In background. Galway's 52ft Burnett lifeboat Frank Spiller Locke. photographs by courtesy of Colin Watson. - View image in PDF
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DECEMBER 22ND. - CLOUGHEY, AND DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. At 5.50 in the morning the Tara coastguard telephoned the Cloughey life-boat station that a vessel was ashore between Kearney Point and North Rock. A strong southerly wind was blowing,...
DECEMBER 22ND. - CLOUGHEY, AND DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. At 5.50 in the morning the Tara coastguard telephoned the Cloughey life-boat station that a vessel was ashore between Kearney Point and North Rock. A strong southerly wind was blowing,...
On the 17th October, 1869, during a violent gale from the N., a small ship drifted past this place with signals of distress flying. The life- boat Birmingham was at once dispatched , to the aid of the vessel, which ultimately struck on the...
FOUR of the leading shipping companies have responded to the appeal on behalf of the Life-boat Service which the Prince of Wales made to shipping in his presidential address at the Annual Meeting of the Institution last...
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Pictured with the giant cheque for £360,000 from the Famous Grouse Whisky promotion are (left to right) - Mr John MacPhail, Chairman of Matthew Gloag & Son Ltd., Anthony Oliver, RNLI's head of fund-raising, the Duke of Atholl,... - View image in PDF
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